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...hardware in the expanded defense budget, Weinberger emphasized the need to improve U.S. conventional forces. He cited such mundane needs as more spare parts, ammunition and supply items. The Secretary vowed to make military salaries comparable with civilian pay, asking for $2.2 billion to cover a 5.3% military pay hike in July. That would be on top of the 11.7% raise already granted this year. Also requested: an extra $15.7 billion through 1982 for more tactical aircraft, tanks, helicopters, infantry vehicles and a wide variety of electronic equipment and other gear...
Eric began spending much of his time in the mountains above Lake Tahoe. He was on a perpetual vacation: "It's great living around a resort; you spend all your time with sports." Klaussen uses his time in the mountains to take photographs, hike, do technical climbing and practice ski mountaineering, a sport that uses cross country skiis with metal edges, and strapped-on climbing skins to hike up and down the mountain...
...machine then uses to solve problems. It enables a businessman, for example, to manipulate labyrinthine equations to calculate financial trends for his company. If he changes one figure, the machine can tell quickly how that affects the other numbers. A firm that gives its workers a 10% pay hike could estimate how that action would alter its costs, sales, profits, or dividends...
...addition, cabbies will be able to charge $14 per hour for waiting time instead of $10 per hour, a 40-per-cent hike...
...jump is slightly lower than the 15-per-cent average increases at Harvard's other graduate schools, 6 per cent lower than last year's Med School hike which changed the trend of very low increases that prevailed during years when lower costs and support from endowment income and alumni gifts helped keep tuition levels down, Dr. I. Leon Dogon, associate administrative dean at the Dental School, said yesterday...