Word: higher
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...answer is particularly clear in the case of boycotts. If a majority of students agree to bear the higher cost of a given product, which only they use, then the University should honor their freely-made decision not to contribute their money to an objectionable corporation, whether it sells a product that kills babies or engages in a vicious union-busting...
...some colleges perhaps that would find their situations sufficiently like ours and order their educational priorities sufficiently like ours that would lead them to change their curriculums in some way that corresponds more or less to the Core Curriculum. But one of the great advantages of our system of higher education is its diversity. There are many different kinds of colleges and universities and many different kinds of schools, large, small, unisex, coeducational, religious-affiliated, non-religious affiliated. It would be a great shame if any one conception of undergraduate education, or any one curriculum, became dominant--we would lose...
...Cambridge Option" sounds more like a novel about British Higher Education than what it really is--Harvard's plan to provide low-interest loans for faculty members so they can purchase homes in Cambridge...
...consumption would have to be reduced by at least 1.7 million to 2 million bbl. per day. "We would hope that other OPEC producers would help out," says a Department of Energy official, "but even so, it would produce much more stringency in the market and, of course, higher prices...
...still difficult to persuade Americans that such cynical calculations are pretty much beside the point, that even if the big oil companies were withholding gas supplies in order to await higher prices, the overall scarcity of oil is real, absolute and ultimately irreversible. The U.S., with 28.6% of the industrial West's population, accounts for 70% of its daily consumption of crude oil. Even with U.S. gas prices going up toward $1 a gallon, Americans are still paying unusually low prices; Europeans for years have been paying two or three times as much for gas as Americans. The price...