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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hieu said he hopes Vietnamese students will be able to study in the U.S. in the future. The cost of travel, living expenses, and language makes this difficult, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vietnamese Physicist Discusses Country's Scientific Progress; Says Agriculture Top Priority | 10/13/1978 | See Source »

...University will hire a part-time assistant to Dean Fox to help manage crowding, cost control, the handling of records and conflicting House policies...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: New Assistant Dean | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...buyers, this will mean not only slightly better mileage but higher sticker prices. Citing, among other things, the cost of making their cars more fuel-efficient, the Big Three have raised their prices about 4% as the new model-year begins, and further hikes may be ahead. Inflation long ago drove the automakers to abandon single-shot increases for an entire model-year. Now the hikes come in bits and pieces. Ford's Mustang, for example, increased in price 14% from the start of the '78 model-year to now. The average price of a U.S.-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Dieting in Detroit | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...such projects. To stop the alarming erosion of America's capital base he contends, companies should be permitted to take their full depreciation allowances within one year-so long as they invest them all-instead of being obliged to stretch them over many years. Fast depreciation would cost the Treasury some tax revenues, but only for the first year. After that, tax collections would go up because profits would rise- and so would investments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Rebel with Many Causes | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...chilly as the city's 50ºF. weather. The Arabs not only wanted to bust the two-year freeze on oil prices with a substantial increase in 1979, they also called for a plan under which oil prices would continue to rise in step with the cost of other raw materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Costlier Oil | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

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