Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films being premiered this weekend is by Carpenter Center's animation teacher, Kathy Rose, featured in argument with her characters in her film pencil Bookings. Much of the recent independent animation in the U.S. has been done by one-time VES 153 teachers and students. George Griffin taught it last year, Mary Beams Phillips the year before. Frank Mouris, who won an Academy Award, Eliot Noyes, famous for his sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter...
...inflation-weary consumers, the news from the Labor Department last week hit like a blast of arctic air: the January Wholesale Price Index rose by 1.3%, or at an astonishing annual compounded rate of 16.8%. That was more than double the rate for all of 1978 and the biggest monthly jump in four years. The index, which usually foreshadows trends in retail prices, was lifted in part by the soaring cost of farm products, especially beef and veal, which rose 13% for the month. But finished goods like cars and appliances rose at an even steeper pace...
Because strong demand has pushed up prices for wheat, beef and other products, farmers have managed to stay well ahead of inflation. By the Agriculture Department's reckoning, total farm income rose an impressive 40% last year, to about $28 billion, not far below the 1973 record of $33 bil lion. A Government-financed on-farm grain storage pro gram launched in the fall of 1977 is helping to maintain this prosperity...
Just before the Faculty approved the reforms of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), the present chairman of the CRR rose to announce his hope that students might finally see fit to end their intermittent eight-year boycott of the committee...
...They are still undecided about what they will recommend when they make their final report next September, but it could contain some surprises, especially for liberals. One proposed index cited in the preliminary study showed that "hardship" actually declined between 1967 and 1976, even though the unemployment rate generally rose...