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Burriss Young, acting dean of freshmen, said yesterday that Holworthy and Grays Halls will probably bear the brunt of the overcrowding, with a couple of other suites in the Yard taking extra people...
Better Mileage. In contrast to the President's proposal, the Democrats were planning to have gasoline bear the brunt of the price increases. The cost of gasoline could go up more, they reasoned, because more than half of it is consumed in the pursuit of pleasure and not in the line of work. The Senate was considering a penny-a-gallon tax that would gradually increase to 100 per gal. as unemployment declined. The House task force was devising a gasoline tax that would be partly rebated at the end of the month for "necessary" driving...
...streets of Bombay or Delhi. While the average Nepalese is lucky to make 150 to 200 rupees ($15-20) a month, there is no mass starvation because of recent good monsoon years and the extensive rice cultivation both in the Valley of Nepal and the lowlands. While the full brunt of the monsoon is not felt in the valley, heavy monsoon clouds hang over the city from June until September, dumping up to 40 inches of rain in that period...
...overcome..." is a beautiful song, but the issue is not spiritual it is nuts and bolts. Do not stone the buses. Build better schools. People do not have to like each other, a little respect is all that is needed. But nobody wants to assume that load, so the brunt of it falls on the schoolchildren. Ant they are far too mutable to support...
...solve," admits Berkeley's labor law expert David Feller. Various suggestions include work sharing, in which no one gets the pink slip but everyone has fewer hours on the job. Another is "inverse seniority," which would allow older employees, who have high, contractual unemployment benefits, to take the brunt of layoffs. The agricultural manufacturer, Deere & Co., has worked out such an arrangement on a voluntary basis. But volunteers can hardly provide a general answer. That will have to come from new legislation or the U.S. Supreme Court...