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Turnout was low across the city, yesterday. Only about ten per cent of the registered voters in Ward 6, Precinct 3, where most Harvard student's cast their ballots, went to the polls...
LAST YEAR all the University's unions settled for a three-year contract calling for successive wage increases of 10, 9, and 8 per cent, and diminutive gains in fringe benefits. This must be quite satisfying for the folks who negotiate for Harvard; they didn't budge very far in bargaining with the University's employees, and they reached an agreement with a minimum of brouhaha...
...gasoline tax that, no matter how politically impractical, is simpler and more effective than John Anderson's. Yergin proposed a tax that would reach $1 a gallon in five years, with direct rebates to purchasers. According to Yergin's statistics, that would reduce national gasoline consumption by 25 per cent...
...commercially unfeasible technology. Current solar technologies are also valuable, but they require very specific types of construction and building materials. With government tax incentives, however, a solar house does not have to cost any more than a non-solar one, and can save anywhere from 50 to 90 per cent on an average-sized home's energy consumption...
Meanwhile, the already installed energy savers like insulation in the attic, a heating system that recovers 85 per cent of the heat from air before it leaves the building, individually thermostated rooms and adjustable-speed fume hoods may provide leads on how other buildings can save...