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...reduced the Press's costs considerably. Secondly, clearance of the backlog of old titles via the annual Memorial Hall book sale brought $52,000 last year and reduced the cumbersome inventory. Thirdly, the Press staff has been drastically cut back from 144 in 1971 to 69 this year. The cutback has both increased efficiency and reduced expense. The reduction in staff will save the Press $130,000 this year alone...
...Five years ago, we would never have had to make these decisions. Then, everybody--the Federal government, foundations, etc.--wanted to subsidize graduate education. The cutback in Federal funding has created a crisis for all of us, and there is no reason that GSAS student deserve a larger share of the pie than students in other schools. Furthermore, all income from the endowment has been spent on operating costs, and there is no money available for aid to graduate students. * Given that we all must tighten our belts, the Kraus plan is a valiant effort at compromise between...
Padded Season. Aggravating the writers' plight are two recent develop ments: the cutback in network prime-time shows, which reduces the demand for scripts, and the growth of 90-minute or two-hour programs that often employ only one writer, instead of several for four half-hour shows. Most depressing, for viewers as well as writers, is the pathetically truncated, rerun-padded season. The networks now routinely air only 22 original shows, instead of 36 as in earlier years. The shortened sea son has meant that nearly one-third fewer scripts are needed...
Agnew's staff was slashed 23% (from 39 to 30) as part of Nixon's general Executive cost-cutting operation. The way in which this was done irked Agnew aides. His chief of staff, Arthur Sohmer, got the orders for cutback in a telephone call from Fred Malek, the second-ranking official in the Office of Management and Budget. "Do we have any choice?" Sohmer asked. "No," said Malek. That was that...
...cutback in Channel 2's national programming production directly damages local programming, which enjoys the benefits of WGBH's large facility and resources. Rice warns, "We will lose both ways. Every time one of our national series goes unfunded, one more way of providing programming for our community is lost...Most of the national series we offer grow out of the Boston community. In a large sense, the programs we produce are a reflection of the cultural richness and intellectual resources of this area. So in an ultimate way everything we do is a community service...