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DESCRIPTION: Yen per dollar, monthly averages, August 1987-June 1988; daily figures, June...
Most notably for consumers, the cost of food is going up. The Government reported last week that prices paid to farmers for grain crops rose 3.7% in June alone, after increasing 6.1% during the first five months of the year. Since January, soybean futures prices have risen from $4.70 per bu. to more than $10, and traders are talking about "beans in the teens" by year's end, which would break the record high of $12.90 reached during a shortage in 1973. As a result, the Department of Agriculture now estimates that food prices will rise between...
...toresubmit various parts of their applications, inorder to facilitate the decision process. Becausethe various committees and subcommittees are knownto debate applicants for days at a time, extrainfomation, such as another essay or secondsemester grades can make a significant differencein helping narrow the semi-definite acceptee groupto a specific number per region...
Professors and teaching fellows speculated thatthe policy change had to do with money. Teachingfellows said they receive $2350 for helping outwith a Summer School course, but that graders--whohelp only to grade students' final exams--receive$15 per student. Most of the professors contactedsaid their courses had enrollments of under 100students, and they added that employing gradersthus costs considerably less money than hiringTFs...
...marketing boys are having a field day. It's billed as "The Battle in Seattle" and "The War at the North Pacific Shore." Closed-circuit pay-per-view deals, cablevision, network television, international satellite link-ups. Even "Up Close and Personal" segments on such soon-to-be American sports heroes as Dutch winger, Ruud Gullitt. He takes it one game at a time...