Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, if you're a student whose classes meet through reading period, who has four finals and four final papers, two of which are due right after winter break, and dreams of a week-long Thanksgiving break and a fall semester that ends in December, you might want to switch concentrations (or schools) and take note of Dean Lewis' words, from a recent e-mail message: "I wonder why we would want to compete to be number one in number of vacation days. Having no classes at all would guarantee victory in that competition. At the prices we charge...
...there have been both inflation and an increase in the number of student groups since then, so there is no question that the present fee is not adequate to meet the same needs it met 11 years ago. Nor is there any question in my mind that the money returned to student groups is (for the most part) well spent and broadly advantageous to the student community. The question is not whether more money should be spent, but how much, and where it should come from...
...struggle to survive," says Larry Mocha. He is president and owner of Air Power Systems Co., a Tulsa, Okla., maker of air cylinders and other parts for trucks that his father founded in 1964. At times, Mocha recalls, he had to borrow on his personal credit card to meet his payroll. A year ago, though, he bought the assets of a local machine shop whose owner was "tired of being a small businessman." The acquisition enabled Air Power to double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking at two more potential acquisitions, each of which would cost around...
...right. Last week Milosevic's customs seized a convoy of trucks carrying some 350 tons of oil intended for Nis and Pirot, two opposition-run towns in southern Serbia. The convoy was stopped as soon as it crossed the border from Macedonia, and the two mayors, who came to meet it, were not even allowed to get near the trucks...
...mothers who have wept when their babies left for college, and who weep each time their babies return. To fathers who greet us with a gruff handshake, little siblings who meet us with incessant questions and pets that welcome us with a wet, sloppy kiss. Thank...