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Enrollment has plummeted from 96,696 in 1970 to 73,005 in 1976, yet the budget has risen by millions every year. Busing and court-ordered reforms caused some of the increase but it took a 25 per cent jump in the city's property tax to prompt the administration to pay even lip service to reorganization and costcutting. It costs over $2200 to educate a child in the system...
...without that sine qua non, the void had a peculiar poignancy. It didn't matter that Stokowski was perhaps the greatest innovative genius on the podium. Or that when he conducted, box office receipts soared. In the end his alleged ruthlessness would eclipse them, and prompt a dark ending to one orchestral link after another...
...first attempt is balked. But two weeks ago, Anderson, Clayton & Co., a big food processor, became the first to try the opposite tack: it lowered its offer for Gerber Products Co., the baby-food maker, to $37 a share from an initial $40. The aim apparently was to prompt shareholders of the target company to bring pressure on management to accept the original offer. Two lawsuits have already been filed on behalf of Gerber stockholders, seeking damages from Gerber management for resisting...
...durability of the present brisk expansion. Investors have also been puzzled by the slow progress of the Carter tax and energy programs in Congress; they have been concerned about the growing U.S. trade deficit and fretful that a big increase in the money sup ply in recent weeks might prompt the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit and thus trigger a rise in interest rates. Another drag on the market: European investors, who have been nervous about the sinking value of the dollar (see following story) and the growing U.S. trade deficit. One analyst, William LeFevre, of Granger & Co., says...
...raised what most economists agree is the most serious danger of permitting the dollar to float downward: a cheapened dollar boosts the price of imports and fuels domestic inflation. Some economists also fear that a weakening of the dollar-the currency used by many nations for oil purchases-will prompt oil-producing nations to seek even higher world prices...