Word: quarters
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...baseball slowly recovers from the ticket shock of one quarter of a billion dollars to play baseball, it must finally resolve itself to say that something really is wrong with a policy that permits Hicks to give two million less to his shortstop than he paid for the entire team...
...expect some decisions [to be made] about the building in the first quarter [of 2001]," she said...
...undergraduate will know, the quarters spent on copying books left on reserve for Core classes, on laundry machines and on candy bars after missing dinner add up. Library fines are one more cost of the already expensive Harvard education, and an unnecessary one. The library is not funded by these fees, and the only explanation given is uniformity. In this case, the only uniformity that is relevant is the uniform burden the extra quarter per day the new policy will put on students. Harvard Faculty, reject this recommendation or send it back and ask for a better rationale. The students...
...meet federal rules the manufacturers need ultra-high-mileage vehicles to compensate. Ford's chairman, William Ford, has predicted that hybrids could account for 20% of the U.S. market in a decade. Beyond the need for fuel economy, however, looms the urgency of curbing greenhouse gases--a quarter of which result from car and truck emissions...
...deciding on the Cariari neighborhood of Belen, a 15-minute drive from both the international airport and the Hospital Mexico medical center, the largest in the Costa Rican capital, San Jose. For $83,000 they bought a four-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath, two-garage house--with a terrace and servants' quarters--surrounded by gardens that bloom year round in the region's springlike climate (average temperature: 72[degrees]F). Nearby is the Cariari Country Club, an exclusive resort with an 18-hole golf course, spa and swimming pool. Further afield lie the wilds for which the country is famous: more than...