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...white South Africans complain about the apartheid laws, they can live with them--which is more than the blacks can do. In some areas, black infant mortality reaches 50 per cent...
Farmers are certainly not the ones making a killing at the check-out counter. Time notes that 87 per cent of food price increases take place after the farmer has received his share. Time laid the blame for these price increases on the consumers, with their "insatiable desire for even fancier processing and packaging" and American labor with their ever increasing wages...
...loan plan, labelled the "Cambridge Option" by O'Brien, would allow tenured faculty--whose average income was about $40.000 last year--to purchase homes closer to campus with special mortgages at 6 per cent interest and 40-year terms...
Bank mortgages in the Cambridge area presently carry 11 per cent interest rates with 20-to 30-year terms...
...junior faculty Harvard has tenured over the last century gauges as well as any figures the flooding of the academic market with well-trained scholars. Bruce Collier, special assistant to Dean Rosovsky, outlines the facts: In the early part of the century, Harvard granted tenure to over 50 per cent of its junior faculty. In the early 60s, about 20 per cent of the in-house faculty received tenure. Over the past five years, less than 6 per cent...