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...those were the numbers. The reality of the souring fiscal climate hit especially close to home when Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith unveiled in May a series of sweeping cost-cutting measures throughout FAS, which left few areas of student life untouched: fewer hot breakfast offerings, the closure of two campus cafes, the downgrading of three junior varsity teams to club status, and even reduced shuttle service. The cutbacks published on the FAS Web site amounted to $77 million in projected savings, or a third of the total $220 million projected annual deficit that FAS administrators...
...charcoal oven, which is used by the restaurant to cook meats and bake bread, was able to contain the fire, but the outpouring smoke rose to the ceiling and damaged it, according to Singh, who said he could not estimate the cost of the repairs. But Cambridge fire inspectors determined that the incident caused $10,000 in damage, the Cambridge Chronicle reported...
...commuter car - a change of focus he insists isn't as dramatic as it sounds. "Philosophically, they're quite similar," he says. "It's all about designing cars that are lightweight," which makes them highly efficient as well. The major difference between the two types of cars, however, is cost. Creating a lightweight, highly efficient car that is also affordable - not to mention cool and fun - is "the most challenging thing I've ever done," Murray says. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology's Web site listed nine "services or regions affected" by the outage, including the site that allows students to download certain software at no cost and the administration database at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
While General Stanley McChrystal drew praise for recalibrating U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, the cost of the conflict kept being hammered home. In October, 58 U.S. soldiers were killed, the highest monthly tally since the war began in 2001. President Obama's plan to commit 30,000 more troops before beginning a drawdown in July 2011 led critics to question the logic of fighting a war that cannot, perhaps, be cleanly...