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First, and most important, the comparisons made between Ivy League tuition and fee rates are somewhat inaccurate. The data you quote under the heading "tuition" are not simply tuition rates. Rather, these data are what colleges call the package cost, i.e., University health fees are not treated consistently in your comparisons. For example, the 1988-89 rates reported for Yale and Dartmouth do not include required health fees. Had required health fees been included for all institutions, your table would show Harvard's cost as lower than that for either Yale or Dartmouth...
While retailers often have to cut prices to move merchandise, the cost of importing many of the products they sell, including apparel, has surged because of the fall in the value of the dollar. The result is a severe squeeze on profits. The industry benchmark for an acceptable annual profit is a 15% return on stockholders' equity. But a survey by Management Horizons of 300 large U.S. retailers showed that only 33 of them have met that minimum standard for the past three years. Some of the others may not be around a year from now. Warns K mart Chairman...
...federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional $380 million would go to double the number of housing units for which the Department of Housing and Urban Development pays part of the rent for needy tenants...
...field," he declares. Some form of his bill is expected to pass the Senate, but comparable legislation in the House has not yet garnered the support it needs from Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, who chairs the Ways and Means Committee. Rostenkowski is afraid that a taxpayers' rights bill would cost the Government as much as $200 million a year -- although that amounts to little more than one-tenth of 1% of the annual deficit. Pryor hopes to convince Rostenkowski that just the opposite will happen. Says the Senator: "When people respect their tax system, revenues...
...three times the price of comparable homemade dishes, the fare is hardly cheap, but customers feel that convenience and the ability to buy only the amount needed for a single meal are worth the cost. There is stiff competition between take-out sources, so much so that last year New York's D'Agostino chain hired a graduate chef from the Culinary Institute of America to oversee its new prepared-food operation. With such talent, D'Agostino hopes to whet the appetites -- and curiosity -- of New Yorkers accustomed to such entrenched take-out sources as Balducci's, Grace's Marketplace...