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Major new projects at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) such as the Allston campus and the expansion of the sciences have led some professors to predict an even smaller increase in faculty pay for next year...
...third class of peace rumors predict that one or the other of our allies will make a separate peace, leaving us with the sack. This is an old device for creating distrust and disunity between allies. Since the first of March this rumor has circulated about every one of our allies. At the present time it is Russia who is reported about to sell us down the river...
...last election, in 1999, the BJP won 182 seats and, with its allies, a majority of 295 in the 543-member Parliament. Congress won 114, its worst-ever result. Opinion polls in India are known primarily for their inaccuracy, but this year they broadly predict the BJP alliance will hold or increase its majority and that Congress will at best hold its share of seats. The BJP, says Vanaik of Jamia Millia Islamia, "will become the fulcrum of Indian politics...
...prices are too low. There. I said it. Even when they peak this summer, as most analysts predict, they will be too low. And they're too low in large part because gas is woefully undertaxed in this countrya state of affairs that is bad for the economy, bad for drivers and bad for our foreign policy. In fact, one of the simplest and best things any Administration could do right now would be to add a buck per gallon to the federal gas tax, which is currently just 18.4¢. Now that I have alienated almost every reader...
Although both companies have weathered Japan's decade-long economic stagnation, many analysts say that Akira's workmanlike approach has created the more profitable, financially stronger company. "We do not predict the future," Akira says. "We do short-term projects." Inevitably, some sibling rivalry remains. "My brother is more interested in creating a good company with a high valuation than in creating cities," Minoru sniffs...