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Inflation and energy costs are two major reasons for the hike, which the Corporation approved last Tuesday, Dr. Daniel D. Federman '49, dean of students and alumni at the Med School, said yesterday...
...write to protest the hike in tuition, room and board for next year. For four years I have seen this increase routinely announced, with no reply from those who must pay it. Perhaps this is because my fellow undergraduates are more interested in what Harvard (or its name) will do for them after they leave than when they are here. As for me, I was looking for the very best academic experience I could find, and instead I discovered that the prestige of Harvard rests on research and teaching of graduate students, while the College's only purpose...
King told the state legislature that he wants nearly a 7-per-cent hike in the state budget. Aid to local communities will go up less than 4 per cent, though--a figure one city official called a "sick joke," considering the 15 per cent dent Proposition 2 1/2 will put in tax revenues next year...
...budget was generous with the Pentagon and stingy with almost everyone else, where he had any choice in the matter. Military spending is projected to rise by 14.5% next year, to $184.4 billion, or an increase of 5% after adjustment for inflation. Carter has already granted a 16% pay hike to servicemen in order to attract and keep better recruits. More money will be used to stockpile spare parts, and a mix of new ships, fighter planes, Trident submarines and MX intercontinental missiles will be added to U.S. armaments in 1982 and in future years...
...gasoline. Congress has often made it clear that it will not increase the tax on gas. Carter also proclaims that the annual pay raise for federal employees in October will be held to 5.5%. Such restraint seems unlikely; last year Carter initially suggested a 7.8% civil service pay hike, only to increase it later to 9.1%. After looking over Carter's numbers, David Stockman, Reagan's budget chief, charged that "the relatively low deficit is entirely cosmetic and artificial...