Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Powers said he believes Harvard's contract offer is very generous, because Harvard traditionally pays kitchen workers higher wages than any outside employer...
...Frederick Lenz, a professor of eastern philosophies at the New School for Social Research in New York City, teaches the course, which he said is designed to progressively lead beginners into "higher stages of meditation...
Lenz said his method is a different, higher form of meditation than Transcendental Meditation. "If the teachers of T.M. really understood meditation they would not charge money," he added...
ONCE THE deregulation becomes law, Americans will wind up paying dramatically higher prices for their energy. And it is not even certain that there will be much more of this energy: some critics of the bill, like Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), contend that the amount of new gas generated by higher prices will be marginal at best. Whether there is substantially more gas available or not, however, the fact remains that it will go only to those consumers who can afford to pay the higher prices. The bill is sure to compound consumer burdens to the breaking point...
...policy which will encourage conservation, develop potentially economical energy technologies like solar and wind, and avoid excessive dependence on foreign imports or nuclear energy. But first political obstacles must be overcome: there will have to be less pork-barreling of useless energy projects in key states, less reliance on higher energy prices which pose equity and distribution problems, less resistance to use of alternative power sources. "We have some solutions within our grasp," a Senate staffer confided last week, "but they still need to be translated into political reality...