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...impact of this usurious interest rate will be both inflationary and recessionary. The high cost of interest, which directly increases the cost of everything consumers buy, especially for a home which is paid for over many years, will inflate prices while constricting demand for goods and labor. Though the latter may tend to depress prices, the former, given the exorbitant interest rates, will in all probability overwhelm the deflationary advantages. And in the case of high interest rates, it is once again the less wealthy who are priced out of the market, or to put it in more human terms...
...sore foot sidelined number one star Mike Desaulniers and a twisted ankle kept number four George Ball inactive. Captain John Havens, the number two regular and number one sub for Desaulniers, battled with a sore arm which cost him a chance at a win in the Williams meet...
...That's just untrue," Howard Zinn, professor of political science and co-chairman of the strike committee, said yesterday. "The pay raises wouldn't cost nearly that much and the university could easily afford them by cutting in other areas or by raising tuition very slightly," he said...
...program was expanded over the years so that schools in all but a handful of congressional districts are now eligible for the subsidy; any school district can collect if only a few federal civilian or military workers live there. Last fiscal year the program covered 2.4 million children and cost $799 million. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are among the richest districts in the nation. OMB recommends that funding be reduced to $619.5 million...
...last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...