Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five member groups of the Democratic Coalition Committee agreed with the aims, but opposed the means. They said that the strike "would not solve a problem"; that it was called "undemocratically" without a college vote"; and that "a rally initiated by and held in conjunction with Y.P.A. and other Communist-dominated organizations results in a perversion of the aims and ideals of the rally...
...upper echelons of Dartmouth's sextet went the way of all sheepskins last spring and the Green's major problem all year has been to turn an average group of veterans and some exceptional new talent into something to beat better than average Ivy League competition...
...public levy problem, however, is not so easily solved. Since 1918, the cities and towns through which the El ran absorbed the yearly deficit. But these lesses had been reasonable; the towns could pay them off without too much difficulty. Now the towns cannot cover the MTA excess expenses without raising their own property tax rates. Consequently, they have rebelled against the old system...
Actually, a fare increase is a reasonable answer to the problem; cities like Detroit and Washington have had a two-for-a-quarter token system for five years now. One suggestion offered has been to scale the fare in proportion to the distance that a person travels. For instance, the rate on an outlying line, say from Watertown to Harvard Square, would be six cents; the intown rate on one of the main transit lines would be ten cents. Thus the maximum fare for traveling the length of the system (two outlying lines and a main line) would...
...would be as well off it her population had not grown since the days of Elizabeth. At that point, I suggested it the attitude is that it makes no difference whether the population is 12 of 3 million, then we need not be excessively concerned over the New England problem. But it is far from my view that New England problem. But it is far from my view that New England's population will fall by 80 percent...