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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changing style of politics. "I think they try to make it neighborhood to neighborhood, but he neighborhoods have changed. The tenement districts of Charlestown, East Boston and South Boston are now condominiums. How can it be the same if there's people moving in where your father or mother paid $12 a month rent for a cold water flat and sent their kids to local school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Hidden Political Legend | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...holes in the soles. At an an earlier transition meeting with White, Flynn illegally parked his car--a 1975 Dodge Station wagon with a hole in the floor--and received a parking ticket as he discussed taking over the city's government. In case you're wondering, he promptly paid the ticket...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: From Curley to Kennedy | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...undergraduate paid $6525 for tuition, room and board. Student tuition made up 22.8 percent of the University income. Ten years later, each student paid $16,145 for a year at Harvard, and tuition paid 26.7 percent of total University expenses. Tuition has recently risen between 3 and 5 percent over the concurrent inflation rate. comparing the rise in tuition to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures national inflation for a breadbasket of consumer goods, is inappropriate. Instead, they say, the tuition hikes should be measured against the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), which guages increases in university expenses...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Paying the Piper: Why Tuition is Going Up | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard, a conservative management strategy for the endowment has contributed to the tuition increase, officials say. In recent years, the $4 billion endowment has paid for an increasingly small percentage of total expenses, and other forms of income--mainly tuition--have had to make up the difference...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Paying the Piper: Why Tuition is Going Up | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

...things could be worse. If the FAS total expenses for the 1986-87 academic year were paid only by the 9000 students with no endowment or financial aid, each student would pay about...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Paying the Piper: Why Tuition is Going Up | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

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