Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices as they monitor the flow of cash. A university can't change the price of its product in the middle of the year, and so Faculty budget-makers are locked into an annual budget. They have to make crucial financial decisions based on fuzzy guesses about the inflation rate a year and a half from now. "I sit here in September with a budget of $50 million and I have very little control over that budget--all I can do is monitor and manage crises," Kaufmann says...
These marginal economies, though unquestionably significant in balancing the Faculty's budget, are not the only money-saving measures introduced in the past few years. Rosovsky has insisted that no department has suffered a reduction in size, but for several years before 1977 the rate of hiring new senior professors slowed down--no appointments got the axe, but some were delayed. Recent budgets have also skimped on some building maintenance...
Meanwhile, SHS membership was turning over at an alarming rate. Half the members left by midyear, Kyriazis said, further charging that many of them "used SHS as a stepping stone." Kyriazis also claims SHS floundered because the University wuld not grant them office space. Archie C. Epps, III, dean of students, in January assigned SHS a room in the Memorial Hall basement. Kyriazis marched into Rm 186 only to find it occupied by the Kuumba Singers. Epps said he thought Kuumba had moved a year ago. SHS is still on a list with 12 other new organizations looking for office...
...cent increase in housebreaks, the Cambridge crime rate for the first six months of this year jumped 36 per cent over 1978, police officials said yesterday...
...jump in the overall crime rate was greater than those recorded in Boston, Fall River and New Bedford, and slightly smaller than the increase in Springfield, the only other cities in Massachusetts with populations above...