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...great to ignore. Bok announced that fall that the College would move to a 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio from the old 4 to 1. But the pressure was nearly as great from Harvard alumni to maintain the size of the Harvard undergraduate body. So Bok decided to expand the size of the subsequent three entering classes...
...exports of steel scrap (presumably because they tend to keep supplies down and prices up at home); it would be a "tragedy" if the U.S. reimposed an embargo on imports of Rhodesian chrome; and there is only one way that American industry can raise the capital it needs to expand-"more profits...
...question, which began as an ecological whisper, eventually rose to a roar as Maine residents took stock of their land and lifestyle. An oil refinery would bring jobs to poor coastal towns Like Eastport, but a single spill might pollute the water from Canada to Kittery. Land developers could expand the tax base, but the quiet, smalltown shops on Maine's streets might be run out of town by tacky shopping malls...
...country, and we believe that it has affected car sales in 1974. We would hope this confidence could be rebuilt." Chairman Henry Walker Jr., of the Honolulu-based Amfac, Inc., says that, "with Nixon safely out of the way," his company plans to move ahead on delayed plans to expand food-processing plants in Alaska and on the West Coast...
...instead of five, and the spring-wheat yield in North Dakota is expected to be sharply reduced. The Governors of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota have declared their states disaster areas. At the Midwest Governors Conference last week in Minneapolis, a resolution was adopted urging the Administration to expand farm disaster relief and increase crop price-support programs, which only last year were reduced in order to boost production...