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Proponents of the natural gas price control compromise may have enough votes to approve this key portion of the administration's energy program in a Senate vote scheduled for Tuesday...
Boston College (B.C.) has received a one-year dormitory license from the city of Boston to house 90 students in a portion of St. Gabriel's Monastery in Brighton, Rick Borofski, assistant director of housing at B.C., said yesterday...
...cent for the project, John B. Cruz Construction, the general contractor for the dining hall, is hurting. John B. Cruz, the owner-director of the company, says the project for Harvard has set his $3 million a year operation back a good two years. And theough he claims a portion of the responsibility, he says Harvard was not at all helpful when delays first occurred. In fact, Cruz claims Harvard is responsible for a considerable portion of the cost overrun because of changes in the original plans, restrictions placed on the monthly cash flow, delays allegedly based on racism...
MEMBERSHIP. The unionized portion of all nonfarm workers rocketed from 11.3% in 1933 to a high of 35.5% in 1945, held a bit below that through the next decade, then sank year after year to an estimated 23.8% in 1977. That was the lowest since 1937, and the figure probably has gone down further this year. Even in absolute numbers, union membership has changed only slightly through the 1970s. And much of the membership is concentrated in mass-production industries, where union jobs are threatened both by more efficient manufacturing techniques?it takes fewer workers every year to make...
...results of a survey conducted in July for H&R Block, a company which prepares income tax returns, indicates that the plan to allow parents to deduct a portion of college tuition costs from their federal income tax is not as popular as President Carter's plan to increase the number of middle-income families eligible for student grants and loans...