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Ford also said that the overhead expenses which the added tuition would help defray were primarily concerned with undergraduates to pay for new research centers," he stated. Such new programs as the Visual Arts Center and other new buildings have significantly increased University overhead...
Dead Horse. But such practical considerations inspired neither side to move toward a settlement. Both seemed more concerned with pleading their separate causes. The publishers' position was that their last offer of $9.20 more a week -$4.25 the first year, $3.75 the second, plus $1.20 to defray the cost of an additional fourth week of paid vacation after 15 years-was already more than the papers could afford. Over two years, the boost would add some $10 million to the payrolls of the nine dailies-an increase that does not include the $8.50 package for which the Newspaper Guild...
Also spattered by the Estes case was Texas' liberal Democratic Senator Yarborough. He admitted that he had received some $7,500 from Estes as political contributions, including $1,700 to help defray the cost of broadcasts he had made in Texas. These contributions did not seem extraordinary-but what did seem strange was the evidence that Yarborough had used lots of influence to help Estes out of his difficulties with the Agriculture Department...
TAXES. The 10% tax on rail and bus tickets would be eliminated; on plane tickets, it would be halved to 5%. The Government would impose new taxes of 2? per gallon on jet fuel and barge fuel, which would help to defray the Government's costs of dredging waterways, building airports and running the air lanes-and also help to quiet the railroaders' complaints that their competitors enjoy many indirect subsidies. Direct subsidies to the nation's small "feeder" airlines, now amounting to $68 million a year, would be stopped...
...Miami convention next month. But Jimmy is not the sort to take any chances: his headquarters admitted last week that an "independent" committee (headed by Hoffa lieutenants) had sent letters putting the bite on the union's 3,000 fulltime staff members for $25 each "to defray the election campaign expenses" of Jimmy and Secretary-Treasurer John English...