Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High fixed kitchen costs, higher costs of monitoring alternative meal contracts, and the many dining halls at Harvard keep food costs higher here than at other universities, members of the food services subcommittee said...
Since 1973 the price of aluminum has jumped from 25? per Ib. to 53?. The gap between supply and demand, some industry leaders assert, will drive the price considerably higher, at least to 60? by the early 1980s. Earnings of the big four, Alcoa, Alcan, Reynolds and Kaiser, which control nearly three-quarters of the U.S. market, have climbed sharply. With considerable understatement, W.H. Krome George, chief executive of Alcoa, says, "For once in our life we have been fairly lucky. Things are rolling along pretty good...
...reddish, earthy raw material, or of electricity, which is used to transform the ore by a reduction process into metal. Even though the industry is operating at full capacity, its rate of return on investment falls short of the target of at least 10%. Says Maier: "We need considerably higher prices to justify new investment...
...amount been paid last year, it would have taken a bite out of Kodak's profits of $643.4 million, which it earned on sales of nearly $6 billion. Kodak will doubtless avoid paying anything for years, while it carries appeals to higher courts. But the legal battle stands to cloud the future of a company that has suffered some reverses lately. Kodak has been less than victorious in its battle with Polaroid in the instant-camera market, and Kodak's stock has plunged from a 1973 high of 151¾ to last week's 42⅛. What...
...They are white shows As matter of equilibrium, perhaps there ought to be some dif ferences between the standards that are applied to TV about whites and TV about blacks. Is that an unfairness doctrine, a kind of reverse discrimination? Should shows about blacks be held to a higher standard of relevance, sensitivity and accuracy than those about whites? Though any hard and fast rules would be foolish, an effort to do just that might help correct some deep-seated racial misunderstanding. Whites know about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections...