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...wish lists are hardly luxuries. Oregon City is asking for a new fire engine ($120,000), an air-operated rescue tool to help fire fighters pry open mangled or burning automobiles ($7,000), a hydrocarbon meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item appears in the catalogue under...
...Crimson has six Ivy League matches in the next two weeks. Harvard has never officially won the Ivy title, so a string of victories over the next two weeks would clinch the Crimson's first. By getting into a groove, the team will gain the necessary momentum that it needs toe perform at the Easterns...
This semi-annual shopping ritual always provokes a string of questions from student shoppers. How much of the Coop's merchandise is available elsewhere in the numerous smaller shops in the Square? How do Coop prices compare with those of other retailers...
...year's work left on his degree, Horowitz labors on his dissertation in his spare time and still hopes to become a professor. The prospects are not good. As the student population shrinks, and tenured faculty members cling to their jobs, Horowitz can look forward to a string of one-or two-year academic appointments, paying between $15,000 and $23,000 a year. Admits Horowitz: "You've got to be a hopeless romantic to get a Ph.D. in the humanities today...
PERHAPS BECAUSE of Miller's self-imposed time frame of one night, the almost deadening string of personal revelations may have been unavoidable. But less explanation exists for heavy-handed and calculatingly cryptic soliloquies that includes: "Marion hasn't been the same since the baby died." "I don't think I'm the man I wanted to be." "I wanted my father to respect me" (tears flowing), or, "I'm extremely popular...