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Most people can understand the problem of declining government assistance. But to those unfamiliar with Harvard's labyrinthine financial structure it is difficult to comprehend why an institution with more than a billion dollars invested in stocks and bonds can't rely more on income from those investments to offset costs...
...people in the program, though, has increased from 17 million to 18.6 million, so each person will be receiving somewhat less. Says Rudolph Penner, a budget expert with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington: "Food stamps grew rather rapidly under Carter, and the Reagan cuts, in essence, just offset some of the very recent growth...
Operating losses for the nation's twelve major carriers may have reached $500 million last year, a record flow of red ink coming after losses of nearly $280 million in 1980. Revenue gains during 1981 were not enough to offset rising costs from increased fuel prices, wages, landing fees, and lost income from the air-traffic controllers' strike and reduced passenger traffic because of the recession...
...final 10% next year. After a brief increase in savings, Evans points out, consumers have usually "adjusted their spending habits gradually upward," and the savings rate drops down to its previous level. Thus the Government probably cannot count on a significant, long-term increase in the savings rate to offset the rising deficit...
...additional funds will be used to offset cuts in federal financial aid and unexpectedly high costs stemming from inflation and newly planned renovations, Thomas M. Reardon, director of University development, said last week...