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Last week's decision by the outgoing government to abandon rationing and other controls immediately and permit market forces to control prices had lightning impact: the cost of bread soared 100%, milk nearly 300% and some cuts of meat more than 400%. But the move brought no quick improvement in food supplies because prices and incomes had been frozen throughout July, and Poles, aware that sharp increases loomed, had cleared store shelves of most commodities...
After releasing a summary of steps he has taken to straighten out HUD, Kemp announced he would not permit his department to deal with 54 former senior officials whom Pierce had exempted from the Ethics in Government Act. The waivers permitted the officials to take private jobs in which they could promptly profit from their HUD experience. One had made $1.3 million in two years as a consultant to developers seeking HUD contracts...
...testing ground for technologies necessary for a Martian sojourn. In particular, astronauts would experiment with living quarters in which air and water are recycled. Inhabitants of a lunar base would also begin learning how to mine the moon for raw materials, including trapped gases and minerals, that would permit the base to become almost entirely self-sufficient and thus permanent...
...Gillis, director of the Office of Neighborhood Services, told Harvard officials in a meeting this week that he believed Harvard would have to secure a special zoning permit before using the building at 230 Western Ave., part of which the Business School hopes to use for office space...
Nonetheless, "if it turns out we have to get a conditional use permit, we'll get it," said Marilyn Lyng O'Connell, Harvard's co-director of community relations...