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Cost-cutting measures such as eliminating festive meals or other such “jaded frippery” would in fact make an imperceptible impact on our budget, but would drastically affect the satisfaction of our students. We undertake regular surveys in addition to our daily contact with you in the dining halls and know that these special efforts we take to introduce variety, depart from the humdrum, reduce the boredom of repetition and make you feel as at home as possible matter greatly. Just as it would be fiscally irresponsible to assume an insurmountable debt level, it would...
...beluga ban wouldn't affect Asian restaurants and food stores: they can always buy from European suppliers. Hong Kong's House of Fine Foods, the territory's largest caviar importer, says its customers are already content with such lesser grades as osetra and sevruga caviar, which come from the same region as beluga. "We do get requests for beluga," says managing director Gephard Scherrer, "but out of the 1.5 tons we import, only about 80 kilograms is beluga." Strict controls started in 1998 have already boosted caviar prices. Tokyo had several specialty caviar restaurants before the Japanese economy deflated. Only...
Sellars leans forward when he talks about how much the refugees’ stories affect those who hear them...
...course of the film - tried to embody what it would be like for him achieving success, getting emotionally attached to a woman for the first time, and receiving admiration from a father figure who ironically is the one who dispatched his own - and show how all these things would affect him as a person. Eventually he realizes that his father's battle wasn't really an individual one, but more a battle for his people...
...Shang up to the task? Some observers are skeptical, given that he has no public record as a reformer with a commitment to greater openness. "We're worried he's simply a technocrat and not an advocate," says a senior executive at a multinational investment bank, "and that could affect the progress of reforms...