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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial powers have a good chance of coming out of "the malaise of the 1970s" into a long era of moderate but steady and less inflationary growth in the 1980s. Eckstein foresees some danger, but a rather pleasant one. Once the slowdown is over, he thinks, the economy will expand so rapidly through 1980 that by early 1981 "a safely re-elected Carter Administration"?or its successor?will be faced with the problem of slowing it down again...
...Monday the Crimson incorrectly quoted Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean for facilities, as saying the University is seeking to enlarge the dining halls of Leverett, Kirkland and Eliot Houses. In fact, Lawton said the University is seeking to expand the dining facilities in Adams, Winthrop and Kirkland Houses...
...contradicting the growing pressures to expand state services and expenditures is a crisis of state revenues. Who pays the growing bill for massive government outlays is quickly becoming a highly sensitive political issue. Political lines on the tax question are again being drawn on the basis of economic interests...
This year Ford has also set up an apprentice program for blacks; though at present only 43 trainees (out of a total of 3,278 nonwhite workers) are enrolled in the five-year course, the company plans to expand the program over the next two years. Other Ford achievements: a desegregated sports program, in which the races mix easily in soccer games and in company recreation rooms, and a home-loan plan that has enabled 212 nonwhite employees to build their own houses...
...infamous passbooks that blacks and coloreds are required to carry and show upon demand to the police. Citibank will no longer make loans to the South African government; the First Pennsylvania Bank will give no loans of any kind. GM, Kodak and Control Data have said they will not expand their South African operations...