Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wheat at $2.60 per bu. -inadequate and "cruel." Carter upped the prices (wheat went to $2.90). But both houses of Congress raised them higher still: the House committee put wheat at $3.00, the Senate at $3.10. Last week the Senate approved its more generous Farm Bill by a lopsided margin of 69 to 18-more than the two-thirds that would be necessary to override a presidential veto. Maine Senator Edmund Muskie complained that the bill would add $8 billion to the budget during the next four years...
...more forcefully expressed--interest in presenting their viewpoint to bureaucrats than do consumers. A consumer may spend ten hours a week in his car, but for the President of General Motors, producing automobiles is a full-time job. These regulations hit where it hurts most--in the profit margin...
...general position for Harvard to take on both the Arab boycott and South Africa questions. In only one instance out of 47 did the Harvard Corporation totally break with the ACSR, by voting Harvard's shares against a resolution we had been in favor of by a very slim margin. On the whole, then, the Harvard Corporation takes the ACSR very seriously and leans heavily on it for advice...
...matter to the council that very few of the tutors have any interdisciplinary training at all. It accepted the position that the Faculty could not provide the selective concentrations with the resources and staff they would need to open up and voted by a slim margin not to endorse the task force's proposal. It is obvious that the council simply was scared that a department like History and Literature would be flooded with more candidates than available resources could cover, and it therefore felt that it was easier to do nothing rather than to risk the unknown...
...foul-pop misjudged by Rick Burleson, Carl Yastrzemski and Butch Hobson in the bottom of the eighth gave Texas Ranger d.h. Willie Horton the chance to drill a two-run double and lead his team over Boston by a 3-1 margin...