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Every reaction should have an equal and opposite reaction, but the recent 21-per-cent jump in the value of Harvard's endowment will not affect the daily operations of the University--including tuition levels--at all, at least for several years...
Thomas O'Brien, vice president for financial affairs, said yesterday neither the 21-per-cent rise in the endowment since mid-1979 nor its recent slight decline because of the bond market will affect next year's Faculty budget...
...reason this plan reflects a crackpot mind is that while "50-50" sounds cute, it may end up bankrupting the SS system and depriving the elderly. How does John Anderson know that a 50-cent tax will produce the exact same revenue in dollar terms to match a 50-per-cent reduction in taxes? Given the editors' ability to quote absolutely opposite predictions on how much gas use would drop with a higher price, even the economists could not make it balance. The SS system is already shaky, and only the unfortunate elderly folk would bear the burden if Anderson...
...proletariat" from the official party charter. And had not the PCF repeatedly denounced the Soviet Union for its disregard for human rights? Indeed, since the middle 60s, the party tempered its revolutionary character to achieve greater political integration. In collaborating with the Socialists, the PCF doubled its traditional 20-per-cent working class vote and captured 49 per cent of the French electorate in the last election...
...rationing has worked before, and it can work again. From 1942-1944, rationing resulted in a 50-per-cent drop in consumption of gasoline and fuel...