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...gift, which was made through the Program for Science, will provide nearly half of the funds needed to construct the $32 million building...
...Poor Price Index. Actually, price increases are less painful for the poor than for the middle class and wealthy, the two analysts maintain. They have rejiggered the figures in the Government's consumer price index, which is largely based on middle-class spending patterns, to construct a "poor price index"; it gives more weight to increases in food and rent expenses, less importance to rises in clothing, transportation, medical and education costs. Between 1965 and 1967, the last year for which they calculated the poor price index, it rose 5.1%, compared with a 5.8% increase...
...remarks, Deutsch emphasized the importance of developing social science to control expanding technology. He compared the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States to the drivers of runaway cars Neither of these big industrial powers understands its own workings, and both must have greater insight to construct intelligent polices, he said...
...University and radicalize a number of students. It is not clear that the April crisis contributed to the demise of ROTC on the Harvard campus nor is it certain that the signs of change in Harvard's concern for the surrounding community, reflected by the recent announcements to construct low and middle income housing, could not have been secured without resort to violence...
...what the current tax reform proposals will do for tax-exempt bonds have all contributed to drive up the rate on this kind of bond. "We'd like to talk about five per cent, but we're forced to talk about seven per cent. When you're trying to construct a self-sustaining dormitory at Harvard or anywhere else, over a period of years, that two per cent could make a considerable difference," comments Jack Donaghue, director of the authority...