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...each of the Yankelovich questions there are wide divisions between groups. Just as men tend to be more liberal or permissive than women, Catholics are more liberal than Protestants. The Northeast and the West are the most liberal areas, the South the least so. The young as always, are far more easygoing than the old, and the college-educated more than those without a college education. On the question of whether it is morally wrong for a man to spend an evening with a prostitute, for example, the rate of disapproval varies from 55% in the West...
...three years--is final and not negotiable. The current wage rates, which start at $4.41 an hour, do not need to be changed, administrators say, because they are equal to or are above the wages paid for similar work in the New Haven area and at colleges throughout the Northeast...
...growing crime too. Cigarette bootlegging is now a big business in 23 high-tax states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. The U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations puts the total loss of revenue at $400 million a year. A quarter of that loss occurs in New York: other hard-hit states include Texas ($45 million), Florida ($36 million) and Illinois ($25 million). Worse still, cigarette smuggling has become an important revenue producer for organized crime, ranking fourth behind gambling, prostitution and narcotics. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, who conducted Senate buttlegging hearings last month, says that...
...opening round of the Northeast Intercollegiate Field Hockey Championships last Thursday, the Crimson women could not muster a goal against the Eli' team they had beaten 2-0 just eight days earlier, and the 2-0 loss knocked Harvard out of the tournament and out of contention for a spot in the national tournament in Denver...
...take the tourney title. UConn co-captain Liz Childs scored the lone goal at 19:30 into the first half. Her unassisted score came off a rebound from the pads of UMass goalie Kathy Gipps. The two finalists will both travel to Colorado in two weeks to represent the Northeast in the NCAA Championships...