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...addition, Harvard is still pursuing an application for a rent increase before the city Rent Control Board. The rent hike would compensate for capital improvements in the building, said Harvard Planning Director Kathy Spiegelman. The increase would be the third in 10 years...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Housing Group Buys Harvard Building | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

...deciding the sequence of the entries is not the only control that the reader may exercise. If you hike over to the bookstore, you will discover that the first choice to make is which gender edition you would like to read. Knopf has published two versions: male and female. The difference between the editions is not great--only 17 lines (and I promise not to reveal which 17)--but, as the cover and title page warn, this one paragraph is crucially different...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

...hike in international esteem is as fragile as peace itself, but the Soviets in particular seem intent on giving the organization even more importance in the future. Gorbachev last year publicly stressed Soviet intentions to use the U.N. for more active diplomacy. Richard Gardner, a former U.S. State Department official and now a professor of international law at Columbia University, returned last week from a Moscow visit where officials outlined Gorbachev's ideas in detail. Among them: setting up a hotline between the Secretary-General and the capitals of the five permanent Security Council members for speedy consultations; a commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations Peace on the March | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Major banks followed the Fed's lead. By week's end the prime lending rate for business borrowers rose from 9.5% to 10%, a three-year high. The rate hike was poison for the stock market: the Dow Jones industrial average fell 73.26 points in two days after the central bank announcement and closed on Friday at 2037.52, down 81.61 for the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying To Halt Inflation's Charge | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...Getman, director of financial services at the WEFA Group, an economic-consulting firm based in Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., predicts that within the next six months consumer prices will rise by as much as a 6% annual rate, compared with last year's 4.4%. But others voice concern that the hike in the discount rate could damage the economy. Democratic Senator James Sasser of Tennessee is concerned that higher interest rates could strengthen the dollar and widen the trade deficit. A rising dollar tends to make U.S. exports less attractive to overseas consumers at the same time that imports become less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying To Halt Inflation's Charge | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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