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Microfilming--the principal method for preserving deteriorated books--is very expensive ($50 per volume), so national library conferences are working to cut costs by sharing microfilms and developing cheaper methods of preservation. Even the government has jumped on the bandwagon, giving $6 million each year to libraries to microfilm unique materials...
Roby has attacked this problem in Harvard's initial games with the sink-or-swim method, playing four freshmen at once on several occasions...
However, Hill warned that Coke could not be used as an effective method of birth control because sperm move too quickly into the fallopian tubes. Hill and Anderson said they are not advocating the use of Coca-Cola as a contraceptive...
...oppose Gramm-Rudman and any other attempt to write the balanced budget into law, not because we disagree with the goals of such a plan, but because such bills say nothing about the method through which those goals will be achieved. Both the increased power of the President under the bill, which may include a "line-item veto" provision, and the possibility that many valuable programs will be needlessly cut, are unacceptable...
Ideally, government exists to help those in need, not those in power. The economic reality of austerity, under the ominous shadow of federal budget deficits, enunciates the anti-welfare sentiments of the majority of Americans. The politics of austerity demand that we search for a pragmatic method of achieving social justice...