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...calculation. But the increase-13.3%-was the lowest in any decade since the low birthrate days of the Depression. For one thing, those relatively fewer babies born in the '30s are now of the child-bearing generation of the '60s; a trend toward smaller families helped to diminish the sum further. It was enough to encourage watchers of the population clock. They may not have forgotten, however, that William the Conqueror's original census in 1087 was called, with a certain prophetic ring, the Doomsday Book...
...issue with the Women's Liberation Movement. He insists that woman's place is mostly at home, at least until children are seven or eight years old. He cites penis envy-a concept scorned by feminists-as a factor in the rivalry between men and women. To diminish the rivalry, he would have parents rear boys like boys and girls like girls, because "treating the two sexes alike pits them against each other...
...working extremely hard with alumnae and hope they will contribute toward scholarships in particular," Mrs. Simmons said. But only 29 per cent of Radcliffe alumnae have given in the past and there is reason to believe that with the recession that even this figure may diminish, she added. "Radcliffe has to make up $700 for each student," she said...
Still, some basic factors will moderate future price boosts. Tough fiscal-monetary policy has removed excess demand from the nation's economy, and rising unemployment will gradually check labor-cost inflation. Wage increases will diminish, at least for nonunion men, because companies are no longer avidly competing for scarce labor. Productivity will go up as employers lay off the extra workers whom they have been hoarding and remaining workers start to hustle to avoid being laid off themselves...
...carrying out its presidential mandate, the commission also listed a number of steps that it said should be taken to diminish campus unrest. Among the commission's recommendations: removal from the campus of as much defense-related research as possible; replacement of the ROTC with an off-campus training program unrelated to campus life; added riot-control training for National Guardsmen and a policy limiting weapons in campus flare-ups to specially trained anti-sniper units; the preparation of contingency plans by college administrators who may face disorders...