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...interview system most Masters now see the recruitment and selection of tutors and Senior Common Room members as their strongest tool for shaping House life. Rather than financing their own teas and open houses. Masters now receive an average of $1000 from the College for entertainment, though many still dip occasionally into their own pockets to make ends meet. Two Masters say they have contributed up to $5000 of their own money toward food and alcohol bills...
...daily to fewer than 900,000 bbl. by last week. In the process, estimated earnings from oil exports have plunged from $ 1.35 billion per month only a few weeks ago to perhaps as little as $700 million at current production levels, and the country has been compelled to dip deep into its foreign reserve holdings. Nigeria is now paying more than $1.8 billion each month for its imports, even though it has reserves of only $3 billion...
...problems demanding response, the time is ripe for the ADA to reaffirm its place in American politics; once again it has the manpower and the money. If the ADA is to succeed, however, it must not hide behind the mantle of Roosevelt but take it proudly, not afraid to dip into the ranks of the intellectuals and come up with new proposals, whether neo-liberal or neo-socialist...
...Arco will be passing on its administrative savings to customers. The company says that it will be able to slash gasoline prices by as much as 30 per gal. in the coming weeks as a result of abandoning credit cards. If Arco's sales spurt as its prices dip, other companies will probably follow the lead and hasten the demise of gasoline credit cards. Any station owners who look around their back lots are unlikely to find the signs that were discarded half a century ago. Those read: CASH AND CARRY...
Fabric purists, and women whose jobs permit a casual approach, can do a little vamping and pull on a pair of high-fashion Norma Kamali sweat pants; or buy something oversized from the designer boutique section; or dip into the proud father's closet and come up with some huge smothering sweater that, worn with pants and leg warmers, makes any mother-to-be look like an off-center ballerina on her way home from class...