Word: saves
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Partly because students want to save money, there is a renewed interest in communal living in dormitories as an alternative to more expensive off-campus apartments. Quite a few colleges have abolished most dormitory rules. At Berkeley, says Ben Leifer, 21, a graduate student in public health, "there are virtually no regulations except be discreet, mind your own business and don't bother anyone." Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., permits students in dormitory suites to choose their own roommates-of whatever...
...Inflationary expectations are repressing effective demand," Greenspan told TIME Correspondent John Berry last week. "That is one of the characteristics of an inflationary environment: the uncertainty in the average household. What will be the cost of my food, my shelter? This uncertainty makes the consumer pull back and save more. If we are successful in bringing down the big thrust of federal spending, convincing people that it and inflation can be controlled, then home building can start to move, sales tied to home building can begin to move-and that includes cars." The ultimate result, Greenspan believes, will be less...
Some merely wanted a paycheck. Others were concerned about being replaced-permanently-by a rookie. For most the motive was simply the desire to play football. To save face, the Players Association last month urged everyone to return to camp for a 14-day cooling-off period that ended last Wednesday...
Though it is intended to save them from injury or worse, many motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning...
...accused of being monotonous. The schedule in Reading, Pa., has included the regular half-hour Che-Lumumba-Jackson Collective Black Community News and a twelve-year-old budding sportscaster's report on the junior stock-car races. Bakersfield, Calif., has programmed square-dance instruction, an environmentalist appeal to save Redrock Canyon and a college spoof called Stagnet...