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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending, towering deficits and ever multiplying regulations are also fundamental causes of the price spiral. Says Pfizer's Pratt: "We have told the President, as most companies have, that we will abide by the guidelines. But what the Government itself is doing is a big part of the problem." In short, the nation would benefit tremendously if Washington were to adopt and obey some price guidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Mystifying Guidelines | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...been the amount of residual fertilizers and pesticides that would be discharged." Yet almost everyone agrees something must be done to save the San Joaquin. Warns State Conservation Department Director Priscilla Grew: "If we want to have long-term agriculture in the valley, we have to address the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Briny Burden | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...MAJOR THEME comes out early. Sex. Or love if you like. Patti (Patty Woo), facing the classic problem of all hopeless romantics in "Used To," the third song of the evening, gives up her search for an Aryan demigod when swept away by a sweet schlep. Though we never found out just how long it was before her affair crashed, Woo's lovelorn overachiever presages the cast's comprehensive review of their dealings with boys from a casual come hither to determined attempts to do without...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Though you can't see the College's problems on a walk through the Yard, administrators emphasize the size and the seriousness of Harvard's needs. Most students have already met the chief culprit, inflation, through burgeoning annual increases in college costs. But cost hikes reveal only part of the problem...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Big Fund Drive: Arming for the Future | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...relation between a major capital drive and the annual College Fund drive, which relies on reunions and a network of class representatives, created a sticky problem for planners. "The first rule of fund-raising is always keep your unrestricted annual giving going even while a capital drive is on," Clifton says...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Big Fund Drive: Arming for the Future | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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