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...will study the teaching load of graduate students, a topic raised by an impending cut in the funds allotted to teaching fellows. Another group will study the distribution of women among the University's departments, in an effort to uncover any pressures that might inhibit women from concentrating in particular fields...
...consumer austerity could go out of fashion very suddenly, especially if gasoline flows as freely as expected with the Arab embargo off. On the other hand, high gasoline prices will continue to inhibit driving, and most economists do not expect inflation and unemployment to abate much until late in the year. So the unseasonable chill on retail sales could last well into the hot-weather months...
...strikers, who are represented by scores of organizations. Self-employed businessmen who often own two or three rigs and haul goods for trucking companies on a contract basis, the independents are united only in their demands and by a general disdain for regulations that inhibit their sense of freedom...
...Simon's statement that there probably will be no rationing but added costs to inhibit the use of gasoline was the final blow. Would Mr. Simon please explain how people who live in areas with no public transportation are supposed to get to work if only the rich can afford to buy gasoline? I know that rationing is much less than perfect, but it should provide a means by which low-income persons can purchase enough gasoline to get to and from work...
Resistance by craft unions has been the biggest obstacle to newspaper automation. The News has no Newspaper Guild representation and is now in arbitration with the typographers' union over details of the changes, but labor problems continue to inhibit automation at many big papers, like the New York Times. Several smaller publishers are trying the changes and liking them. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (circ. 50,448) and its sister evening Herald (circ. 19,277) began installing CRTS a year ago, now have ten in operation and ten more ordered. Chronicle Managing Editor Robert Brown points out that...