Word: expand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group gradually reached agreement, mostly on Socialist terms. Over the next nine months, credit should expand by $35 billion, with small and medium businesses that are engaged in export given preference. Meanwhile, almost $5 billion in new taxes and charges is likely to be levied, including higher transportation and utility rates, stiffer taxes on fancy foods and other consumer goods, an auto-license surtax and a possible 100% increase in the $20 national tax on television sets...
...controversies still continue--the Kennedy Library and Kendall Square redevelopment. The fundamental problems remain--deteriorating housing, a shrinking tax base as the universities expand, police-community relations. Meanwhile, City Manager Sullivan assails the budget policies of his predecessor. For the city council, its politics as usual...
...most important question, though, is now the size of the undergraduate body. If you want to give up on tutorials and Houses, then let it expand. But if you want to keep the kind of education you want to give, the question becomes who to admit. When I took the job, I saw the issues of the kind of education women get here as the most important...
...studying and, at times, giving informal instruction. The Institute of Politics attracts people involved in government who give extracurricular seminars in selected topics on current events. But the contact between these non-academicians and undergraduates takes place largely outside the channels of course work. If the University were to expand such programs and to permit people without a Corporation appointment to teach undergraduate courses, which it now prohibits, the instruction provided in a large range of fields--including law, government, education, sociology, psychology and the arts--would be enriched...
...troubles of the electric-power companies are a prime illustration of what could happen to other industries if there is a further general drying up of credit. The utilities are in constant need of capital because by law they are required to expand their systems continually to serve the needs of a growing population. By one estimate, they will need $66 billion in new money between now and 1978. But the utilities have been pinched by soaring fuel costs and energy-conservation programs, and are having trouble selling bonds at interest rates they can afford. Two weeks ago, Florida Power...