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...leave when the deadline for entering next season expires on May 29; after all, few sports can rival Formula One for its history of posturing. Ferrari, the only team to have competed since the series began in 1950, threatened in the 1980s to leave for the Indianapolis 500. Drastic proposals by the FIA last year to introduce a standardized engine across all teams - a nonstarter for the likes of Ferrari - quickly looked like scare tactics aimed at exacting concessions elsewhere from the teams. "Formula One is Ferrari, and Ferrari is Formula One," Bernie Ecclestone, the sport's commercial-rights holder...
...come to buy guns and ammo, beading supplies, or to sell for quick cash their saddles, buffalo robes and beaded-buckskin ceremonial costumes. But others remain supportive of the jail project - and the enterprise of the town's administrators. The store's fourth-generation owner, George Lammers, noting the drastic difference between subtropical, humid Gitmo and dry, wintry Hardin, says, "This place would be torture for some of those boys." But, he allows, "I think it would be great for all the law enforcement people to be here. It would help our housing market. Our city fathers wanted the economic...
...anytime soon, a number of professors expressed concern that restructuring FAS may be a euphemism for shrinking the size of the Faculty.History lecturer Adam G. Beaver, who is also the department’s assistant director of undergraduate studies, said the FAS administration took a “very drastic measure early” by freezing most of its running faculty searches.“The long-term health of the University lies with the long-term strength of its faculty,” said Economics Department Chair James H. Stock. “That requires ongoing hiring and recruiting...
...athletic department but also for this entire institution. But for the Crimson, cutting nationally-ranked teams or those still finding their footing does a disservice to the mission of DHA. As we await the announcement of the 2009-10 budget, let’s hope that such drastic measures are a last resort...
...percent cut is not likely to disappear anytime soon. In dealing with these cuts, the Houses should do what they can to ensure that the personal infrastructure of the House—specifically the continued presence of tutors and important House administrators—survive such a drastic budget reduction. Extras such as food for House events should be eliminated long before actual academic and administrative positions that play such a central role in the Harvard experience start to be considered expendable...