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...Inflation will at last lessen-with good luck and a bounteous autumn harvest-to an annual rate of between 6% and 7% by year...
...they could all too easily make errors that would result in an even longer and deeper recession, a reignition of inflation or possibly both. In a way, the situation resembles an especially bitter good news-bad news joke. The good news is that, despite everything, inflation is expected to lessen and the slump is likely to end before it flowers into a genuine depression. The bad news is that those are the only two bits of good news...
...seven favored removing criminal penalties for possession or use of the drug. But DuPont, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, testified under instructions not to place the White House imprimatur on such a move. While expressing personal misgivings about the existing criminal penalties for marijuana, he said that any move to lessen the penalties might well be interpreted as a sign that marijuana is safe. That would be unwise, he said, in light of the contents of a 193-page report, Marijuana and Health, compiled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and presented last week to Congress. The report offers...
...already paying for recovered steel (from $60 to $30 per ton) and aluminum ($300 per ton); the metals can easily be recycled to make new products. Beyond that, the great mass of combustible refuse can be sold to power companies or factories as a supplementary fuel that could lessen U.S. dependence on high-priced foreign oil by as much as 150 million bbl., or about 7% per year. Everybody thus benefits from the efficient use of solid wastes, especially the municipalities that can turn the headache of garbage disposal into the pleasure of profit...
...History graduate students say the burden of tutorials is handled by graduate students and claim that cutting back on graduate student teaching will lessen undergraduate contact with teachers while providing an illusion of increased faculty contact...