Word: costless
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...students have the capacity to assess ourselves for an organization we support? People who feel the term bill is a sacred object which should be kept inaccesible to those who pay it may disagree. But a failure to respond to the expressed preference of the majority, when it is costless to the university and non-binding, is an arrogant denial of students' rights. Mary E. Babic '81 Timothy G. Massad...
...THIRD irony--the last one we shall pause to count--the major objections to a reform of financial policy are likely to be more political than economic. Even if they concede that some forms of moral control over investments would be costless, university administrators are prone to argue that the political procedures by which decisions could be reached on individual stocks would in themselves corrode the "freedom" of the academy. Harvard's administrators are probably representative of corporate bureaucrats in fearing the disclosures of now confidential information and the presumption of legitimization of institutional expressions of will which would necessarily...
...shrink or sink. Some time this year, a new, privately run U.S. Postal Service will raise second-class mailing rates by at least 50%, and probably by 100% over the next five years, to make second class pay its own way. Rates are based on weight; smaller magazines costless to mail...