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Because its resources are now much scarcer than they have been, the University will have to make choices in the years ahead to abandon some programs in order to continue others. It will almost certainly have to do this in order to continue the Staff Tuition Scholarship program. The University community has the right and should receive the information it needs to participate in these choices...
...Collapse. The sequence goes this way: As industrialization grows, it voraciously consumes enormous amounts of resources. Resources become scarcer, forcing more and more capital to be spent on procuring raw materials, which leaves less and less money for investment in new plants and facilities. At this stage, which might be about 2020, the computer's curves begin to converge and cross (see chart). Population outstrips food and industrial supplies. Investment in new equipment falls behind the rate of obsolescence, and the industrial base begins to collapse, carrying along with it the service and agricultural activities that have become dependent...
...tensions are caused mainly by the competition for scarce commodities and even scarcer jobs. Inside the camps, to discourage refugees from seeking work, loudspeakers daily warn them not to go into the villages. It is perhaps the sorest point with local residents, who say that the refugees will work for one rupee (130) a day when the local rate is between 21 and three rupees. Farm laborers, shop assistants and other workers recently demonstrated in the farming district of Nadia, asking local employers not to hire refugees. Residents also complain that the price of kerosene, vegetables and other foods...
Burns and most independent economists contend that neither phase has gone according to plan. The federal pressures did not substantially impede inflation and tended to diminish consumer confidence. Even as jobs became scarcer, unions demanded higher, rather than smaller wage increases. Burns argues that Government must act to discourage both wage and price increases; the Fed has recently moved against inflation by raising the discount rate...
...Julia Child is not a put-on manufactured by an industry on the make for the scarcer and scarcer kuick buck. Her authenticity and expertise are unquestionable, and her enormous memory stocked with the hardcore of haute cuisine essentials marks her as a master chef. Julia Child is a great cook, a very funny lady, and a cult object; the publication of Volume Two of Mastering the Art of French Cooking is accordingly a major event in high-calorie pockets around this country...