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...take up to five hours-including a bus drive through the Jordan Valley, a stop at the border for passport and baggage check, and a second bus trip to Jerusalem. The airline offers each tour customer a free excursion flight to the seaside resort of Aqaba in Jordan to offset the inconvenience. Right now, Americans must first fly to Europe and take Alia from a major European city, but the Jordanian line will soon apply to the Civil Aeronautics Board for a weekly flight from New York's Kennedy Airport...
...both fovored construction at the Radcliffe Quad. With the final decision on the merger of Radcliffe and Harvard coming close, it was felt that not enough attention and money was being devoted to the Radcliffe Houses. Construction was seen as a device to upgrade the Radcliffe Quadrangle, and partially offset the emphasis placed on Harvard by prior decisions about housing and classroom facilities...
Other important decisions were made that weekend. The Crimson's Board of Graduate Editors approved plans for an offset press. Until 1971, The Crimson printed its daily edition in the basement of the Crimson building at 14 Plympton...
...economics of letterpress printing proved too costly for the paper, and photo-composition equipment was purchased. The Crimson, however, did not have enough capital to purchase an offset press, so the paper went through a number of different printers before finding happiness at Arlington Offset...
Given Chile's hopelessly snarled economic problems, Bonilla's solution sounded a bit too simple. The fact is that Chilean workers who now earn around $30 a month, will need substantial pay boosts in order to offset inflation, which, at 300% a year, is the highest rate in the world. If they are granted such huge wage increases, the inflationary trend will continue soaring, wiping out their gains. They are ensnared in an economic Catch...