Word: biennium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's Albert Dean Rosellini, 49, son of an immigrant Italian grocer, was a freewheeling Seattle criminal lawyer and 18-year state senator, won his four-year term in 1956. His overoptimism on tax estimates, plus the recession, ran up a $48 million deficit in his first biennium, which he dealt with in this year's legislature-Democratic in both houses by the largest majority since New Deal days-by pushing through tax boosts that set off a short-lived taxpayer revolt. In Protestant-majority Washington, Rosellini shivers at the fear of a Catholic presidential candidate calling attention...
...still going up. But that, says Long, is only part of the answer. "For one thing," he points out in the current issue of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, "state universities-which put little reliance on endowments, and in some cases get more money from their legislatures in a single biennium than the entire wealth accumulated by Hopkins since 1875-have pushed up salaries no faster than private institutions." Besides, in the 1940s, with the help of the Federal Government, "the universities took in more purchasing power per teacher but paid him less." The difference was spent on buildings, maintenance...