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That last credential was particularly important, since Dartmouth, like other colleges across the country, was facing the pressures of a cost crunch and a projected dip in enrollment. McLaughlin has responded to the challenge. By last fall he had boosted the endowment from $254 million to $414 million and fattened faculty salaries 33.7%, to a healthy average of $50,600 for full professors. Although applications for the Hanover, N.H., campus were rising to an all-time high of 9,500 for only 1,030 places in the freshman class, McLaughlin pushed the enrollment of blacks; Dartmouth now has a larger...
Communities have taken a fresh look at the idea in part because the budget crunch has forced Congress to reduce federal aid to state and local governments. Faced with that austerity, towns are looking for new ways to reduce their spending. Says Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, whose city saves money by hiring companies to perform such services as street sweeping and landfill management: "We're all in a fiscal bind right now, exacerbated by federal cuts and GrammRudman, and it is not going to get better. To a greater degree than ever before, cities are dependent upon their own resources...
...carpet reception for Savimbi, Congress remains uneasy on the question of U.S. involvement in southwestern Africa's complicated political stalemate. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Dante Fascell thinks the chances are "slight to none" that aid for UNITA would survive the Capitol Hill appropriations process. One major obstacle: the crunch on foreign aid imposed by the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction...
They are known in Sacramento as "crunch weeks," when California's assembly and senate face deadlines for moving legislation toward passage. Last week, as a cutoff approached for voting bills out of committee and onto the floor, the most frantic spot in town was Room 4202 in the capitol building, the hearing room of the assembly's critical ways and means committee. Day after day, the chamber was aswarm with legislators, their aides and California's highly visible corps of lobbyists...
...Crunch week also meant that Sacramento's calendar was studded with fundraising events. On Tuesday evening some 100 guests nibbled on shrimp and crayfish at Assemblyman Gerald Felando's $500-a-person "Annual Fresh Seafood Reception," held in the tony Sutter Club, two blocks from the statehouse. On Wednesday there was the $500-a-plate "Breakfast with Assemblyman Wally Herger," and this week there will be the comparably priced "Rise and Shine with Assemblywoman Lucy Killea...