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Henry C. Meadow, associate dean of the faculty of medicine for financial affairs, was not as concerned about the effects of the cut on the Medical School, which has more resources to offset the reductions...
...rhetorical castigation, leaned over and whispered; "What I'm about to say isn't directed against you personally, Mr. Brewster; we know that you have to do and say the things you do because of your position." Recalled Brewster: "The sweetness of the charity did not offset the bitterness of the insult...
That still leaves a shocking deficit. In the early 1960s, U.S. exports exceeded imports by an average $5.5 billion yearly. This year imports are exceeding exports - by $29 million in the second quarter. With no trade surplus, the U.S. is dependent on inflows of foreign capital to offset its overseas military and tourist spending, and it is no longer getting such inflows. As stock prices declined, foreign purchases of U.S. securities dropped by $1 billion in the second quarter, to $300 million...
...more quickly Africa develops-as the Pope wants it to-the more quickly will it face the forces that are disrupting Catholicism in developed countries-urbanization, secularization, loss of faith altogether. Perhaps, as the Pope suggested in one address, the African's "deep sense of community" will help offset these forces, but the church's task will not be easy. Nonetheless, when the papal retinue departed Uganda Saturday, Paul VI left behind a church with a newly realized sense of self and a new pride in virtues that had been too long overlooked...
...style derives from both decorative Oriental and primitive art and illusionist painting. He may lift details from lace sleeves he has seen in a Flemish masterwork at the Metropolitan Museum and expand them into blown-up patterns, offset these with gingham checks from his wife's summer dress, and counterpoint both with huge pointillist dots. The results look like an explosion in a fabrics factory or a rabbit-hole view of a Wonderland garden...