Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important to keep in mind that the price of current meal contracts already takes into account the fact that most students eat only 14 meals per week. If all students ate the 21 allowable meals, the amount of food consumed would necessarily rise, and board contracts would be substantially higher than they...
...announced that they would comply with the guidelines. Increases in steel prices and railroad rates have been held within the basic standard, which calls for companies to limit price rises over the next year to half a percentage point below their average annual rises in 1976-77. Still higher increases may be made by companies with special problems, like rapidly rising raw material costs, so long as their pretax profit margins do not go above the average for the best two of the past three years. The trouble is that more and more corporations intend to take this profit-margin...
...such as health insurance and pensions, would eat up most, and in some cases all, of the allowable raise without adding a dime to paychecks. Amid cries for more flexibility, the Administration stumbled about for several weeks before it indicated last week that workers would not be charged for higher costs of maintaining present benefit levels...
...laws which set the mortgage lending rate below the market interest rate hurt the people they are supposed to help--the "borrowers of limited means." The state is losing up to $2.4 billion that would have been invested in the state by banks if the interest rate had been higher. Usury laws decrease the amount of money available to lower-income borrowers and help corporate borrowers and purchasers of multi-family and other real estate...
...excellent he raises these questions, though it's interesting that the driving force behind his review is money--the Faculty is spending a higher and higher proportion of money on GSAS, and they can't keep it up," Smolin said