Word: deficits
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Prevailing Pattern. In Vermont, where the town of Stratton (pop. 24) once had equal representation with Burlington (pop. 35,531), a reapportioned legislature has abolished the poll tax, approved a capital-gains tax and passed the first deficit budget in the state's history. In Maryland, where suburban representatives have replaced many small-county lawmakers, a graduated income tax, a fair-housing law and the state's first billion-dollar budget have been adopted (TIME, April...
...past six o'clock and frigid as the first two doubles matches moved into overtime in their third sets. Levin and Jarvis (one) dropped their first set to Yale's outstanding senior duo of Waltz and Brooks but fought back from a 4-1 deficit to take the second, 10-8. Adelsberg and Davis (two) had won their opener, 6-2, but dropped the second...
...President of Radcliffe, Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, apparently feels that the threat of a large financial deficit is sufficient cause to limit sharply the number of Cliffies eligible to move into their own apartments next year. In response, a growing number of girls organized a hunger strike to force Mrs. Bunting to relax the restrictions...
Radcliffe's deficit is a grave consideration-but not one which should force a substantial number of girls to live in a situation they find intolerable. Mrs. Bunting has been unwise in her decision to embark on an ambitious campaign to raise more funds for a project which many students bitterly oppose. It would be preferable for her to seek additional funds to ensure that girls could move off- campus without ruining Radcliffe's finances...
Friday evening we had a lengthly meeting with Mrs. Bunting at Edmunds House. After three hours of discussion her position became quite clear: Housing policy can be changed -- now, for next year -- if Mrs. Bunting is convinced it is "important enough" to the educational experience. Otherwise the deficit (which could be made up, as it was last year, by alumnae gifts) outweighs any considerations of our wishes. She asked us to write a "well-worded" statement of why we think the question so important. We are doing so, but as far as we are concerned the importance of any question...