Word: granted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Council voted Monday night to grant a 23 per cent pay raise to City firemen and police over the next two years, making them the highest paid in the Commonwealth. The raises will cost Cambridge about $1,500,000 and will add five dollars to the tax rate...
...16th century, Spain built a buffer province near the headwaters of the Rio Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New Mexico's Rio Arriba county. Bigger than Connecticut and almost as inaccessible as Tibet, the area sprawls southward from the Colorado Rockies to atomic-age Los Alamos. Its western reaches contain the licarilla Apache reservation, and to the east loom the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where at Easter fanatical Pen-itentes...
...project, under the direction of Howard T. Fisher '26, professor of City and Regional Planning, is being financed by a U.S. Public Health demonstration grant. Workers include faculty members and students in the School of Design as well as a few undergraduates...
Since last spring, the federal government and other large research foundations have been busily chopping away at their research contracts with universities. Those cuts do not affect the faculty budget directly. No grants go into the budget; instead, the faculty receives a percentage of each research grant as payment for overhead costs--such as maintaining the labs and offices for the researchers. So when the research contracts are cut, overhead payments drop correspondingly. The overhead costs, however, keep right on going, and the Faculty begins to lose money on its labs instead of breaking even...
...more of the overhead costs than Ford had predicted, and the unexpected money helped bail the budget out of its predicted deficit. This year, however, prospects are bleaker. The Faculty will still get its overhead percentage--7 per cent of all research money--but the total amount of research grants will be much lower. For the first time since the 1940's, the grant totals will drop, and Ford predicts 25 per cent less research money than would have come with normal expansion...