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...percentage point below the average rise in 1976-77). If corporations are setting their prices at inflationary levels, the government should intervene. But the President has acknowledged that he has no tangible means of enforcing them except through the pressure of public opinion. He can't encourage a consumer boycott of violators or withhold federal contracts from them because it would be over-stepping his presidential authority. If it becomes clear that big business is flaunting his guidelines, smirking at them as they did at Gerald Ford's ridiculous WIN buttons, Carter should reconsider his vehement rejection of mandatory controls...
Cambridge residents have frequently picketed the corporation over the styrene emissions. They have also attempted to start a boycott of Advent products...
Carl F. Rosen '80, a member of the undergraduate group that elected Fouquet last year and voted to boycott the ACSR this year, said yesterday that the ACSR "is so far from reality they can't speak for the Harvard community. The report highlights the need for reforms of the ACSR...
...classes had. The results were not overwhelming; many did not even vote. But to say that the freshman class is opposed to the CRR is absurd even given the results. The apathy results from misinformation and tradition. Students are made to believe that they have to continue the boycott...
...time for the propaganda to cease. It is not like The Crimson to fall prey to such unsubstantiated public relations. Students should channel their excess energizs into more constructive avenues. Phillips Brooks House can use the volunteers. But to cling to some dead issue like the CRR boycott or the abolishing of the CRR is wasteful and foolhardy. The Student Assembly will gladly put people to work to worthwhile ends. And even the Crimson needs people to deliver its papers, especially during Reading period. Or work with the CRR and we students who are interested in maintaining student participation...