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...With inflation cutbacks in government aid to higher education, and the rapid rise of tuition it didn't seem prudent to take on a new building," he added...
...rise, while not exactly meteoric, has been rapid. Three seasons of respectable play at Northeastern for the bruising six-ft, 200-lb. winger brought 20 goals, 24 assists and a list of bonecrunching checks you couldn't fit on a roll of adding machine paper. They didn't bring much Beanpot distinction for Nilan, whose tournament achievements include missing the final game of the 1978 Beanpot while sitting out a suspension for a fight at Colgate, getting four penalties in another Beanpot outing, and going pro in the Huskies' only victorious year...
...legislation began as a straightforward Reagan Administration proposal to cut individual income tax rates and give businesses more rapid depreciation write-offs. But then congressional Democrats offered their own tax package, and both sides started tacking on sweeteners for regions and interest groups in an effort to win their support. The Administration's bill finally came out on top, but it was so loaded with goodies as to be unrecognizable...
...which had dropped by almost 50% since 1929, the NRA invited all employers within a given industry to ignore the antitrust laws and draw up their own "codes of fair competition." That implicitly permitted not only production curbs but legalized price fixing. On the other hand, to stop the rapid spread of wage cuts and unpaid overtime, the NRA codes were also supposed to include such things as minimum wages (set at $12 a week), maximum hours (40), a ban on child labor and a guarantee of the right to organize unions...
...rival McDonnell Douglas Corp. in St. Louis the gloom was thick enough to slice with a propeller. The reason: word had leaked out that the Pentagon was recommending the $4.6 billion purchase of 50 of the giant Lockheed C-5Ns as cargo airlifters for the nation's rapid deployment force. The decision was an unexpected one, since only last August chiefs of the Air Force, Army and Marines had unanimously recommended that a new plane designed by McDonnell Douglas, the C-17, be chosen over Lockheed's C-5N and all other candidates...