Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest untapped source of more college income is tuition. Harris is strongly in favor of boosting it from the present $1 billion yearly to $4 billion. While average tuition has risen about $100 since 1930, he notes, the comparable costs to a college have risen to $500-requiring a $400 subsidy a year for the average student. At the same time, family income after taxes has risen by $3,000. If tuitions are scaled accordingly-and scholarships are also expanded-the net income from higher tuition could be about $2.5 billion yearly...
...that kind of money-but the public can and does. Aroused by the brave little woman's battle with the corporate dragon, millions of televiewers produce a deluge of dimes for a fight-the-villain fund. With Odyssean shrewdness, Kovacs pretends to yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could prefer a conventionally pretty Hollywood...
...Federal Reserve Board last week ordered new regulations to curb stock market credit. The Fed kept its basic rule that investors must put up 90% cash on new stock purchases. It added new provisions, effective June 15, to cover accounts in which stocks were bought on margin before the present margin rate. Formerly, if an investor sold stock, held on a margin below 90%, he had to use only 10% of the proceeds to pay off his debt to the broker. Now he must apply 50% of the proceeds. One exception: if the investor sells his stock and buys another...
...John Foster Dulles signals the end of an era in American foreign policy. While his influence on international affairs was not as lengthy as that of a Roosevelt or Churchill, the mark of his personality is stamped on the five-year period from his appointment in 1953 until the present...
...committee positions and minor chores were frequently left to the same people. While the caliber of membership was raised by appointed members, debate was often uninspired and based on little or no discussion with the students being "represented." Often the end of the meeting found less than a quorum present...