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Under Proposition 2 1/2, city officials predict municipal services would resemble Hamburg's in 1945. City Manager James L. Sullivan estimates that Cambridge's property tax would be cut 60 per cent over six years and the city would lose one third of its annual budget. In the first year, Cambridge would have to lay off a third of its police force and firefighters, more than a third of its teachers and public works employees, close health centers, branch libraries and community schools and stop underwriting public celebrations. When Proposition 2 1/2 is fully implemented, "there will not be sufficient...
Going into the race, the favorites are Navy and Princeton, with last year's winners, the Columbia Lions, following close behind. But it's impossible to predict which team will pull the trick to get the treat...
...draft of the report--which has not been adopted as University policy or endorsed by Harvard officials, but has been distributed to admissions officers for comment. The report largely deals with test scores. It makes the unproven and often-assailed assumption that standardized test scores are valid predicters of students' performance in college, and it goes on to evaluate how accurately the tests predict performance for different groups...
...promoted this arrangement, whereby the borrower receives a mortgage rate that is one-third lower than the prevailing level, for example 9% rather than 14%. But the borrower must agree to give the lender one-third of the profits from the eventual sale of the house. Bankers predict that such plans, which are already popular in Florida, will soon become common elsewhere...
...transmission of TV signals by wire instead of through the air, may still be in its infancy, but it is growing fast. Some 17 million subscribers, who are concentrated primarily in big cities, now use the system. That is an increase of 12.7 million since 1970. Moreover, experts predict that cable TV, which will enable the viewer to receive up to 150 channels of programming, will some day be part of the home entertainment center for families across the U.S. Cable firms are thus jockeying into position in expectation of the fierce battle that will determine which company will dominate...