Word: reductionisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sack's letter said that President Carter's inflation guidelines require a 0.5 per cent reduction of the average 9.7-per-cent increase in tuition costs in both 1976-77 and 1977-78. The 9.2-per-cent increase of $368 has been rounded up in "the spirit of the guidelines...
But Harvard's financial aid windfall may receive a Congressional "red dot" next year. Gibson said yesterday, "We'll be lucky if we don't get a reduction" in the 1980-81 package.
Another unpopular measure to spare energy would be to moderate some antipollution regulations. The American Petroleum Institute estimates that the extra crude required to make unleaded gas for new cars with catalytic converters amounts to 140,000 bbl. per day, and the Department of Energy figures that yet another 500...
Legalize marijuana [Jan. 29]. Think of the advantages: a new taxable market, a reduction in the trade deficit (by growing and consuming domestic crops) and an end to all the corruption and violence that come with imported pot.
Outraged, Governor Carroll returned after two days' absence to fight Stovall's use of his own powers. When the legislators assembled last month, the Governor ignored the special session and fought any tax reduction on the grounds that the state could not afford it. But after the legislators...