Word: costs
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...Education guide tell him what to take and where to go. And yet he'll still have to learn by experience that 10 a.m. classes start at 10:10, that all 42 books at the Coop labelled "required" simply aren't, and that paper deadlines are like Defense Department cost figures--overruns are expected. Some proctors can provide helpful advice, but some are biased, others haven't been undergraduates for years, and still others are law school students who know a good financial deal when they see it and are always off somewhere playing with their torts...
Balsam said he and other dining hall workers hope the University will restore full breakfasts to all Houses by raising board fees and offsetting the cost to students by refunding money that is due to be returned to them in January, when a reduction in the state meals tax takes effect...
...army. The army cannot indefinitely remain as the major political power in Ulster. Morale is low, and Britain's will to support it is weakening. Though the British will never unilaterally abandon their political link with the province, they are equally unwilling to maintain direct rule at the cost of an endless army presence. The British are eager to see the army withdrawn--and seeing that delayed, they desire (in a sense) that it be compelled to withdraw. Inevitably the army will withdraw. If a workable political solution is not in effect by then, the people of Ulster will have...
Energy. The more businessmen ponder the program that Carter presented to Congress in April, the less they like it. The program relies primarily on taxes to force conservation by raising the cost of fuel to consumers. To many executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think, should be put on increasing production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by granting energy companies more incentives. David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of measuring instruments, says with a snort that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who put the program together, "doesn...
...much more fluent since I joined the project. To become part of a national group, it's just very self-enhancing." Still, the ridicule goes on. A few days ago, Albach began stammering while quoting the price of a book; to the customers, it sounded as if it cost hundreds of dollars. "These kids had a good time laughing and mimicking me," says Albach. "Afterwards you think of all the things you could have said, but then you don't know if your rejoinders will come out right either...