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...Rindge, the council heard two and a half hours of complaints from a crowd shrunk to 100. Tenants charged that the board had granted rent increases to landlords in spite of housing code violations, and that it favored wealthier tenants...
...latest emergency that bodes ill for food prices is the serious fertilizer shortage. Supplies of natural gas, from which many fertilizers are made, have shrunk along with those of fuel. Speaking of a key fertilizer known as anhydrous ammonia, Warren Dewlen, chairman of the Fertilizer Institute, says: "Inventories are only half of what they should be at this time, and the outlook for improving the situation is dim." Some farm experts believe that the lack of fertilizers alone could cut crop yields by as much as 20%, worsening the shortage crunch in raw agricultural products...
...celluloid as in petroleum, value is determined by scarcity. From the '30s to the '50s, Hollywood produced hundreds of popular entertainments that audiences and critics considered standard fare. Now that the major studios have shrunk slowly in the West, the antique movies have been revalued upward. According to many film scholars and au-teurists, old Hollywood seems to have been an amalgam of quattrocento Florence and Periclean Greece...
Nancy L. Glazer, a graduate student in economics, said at the meeting that as the demand for Marxist economics has grown, the supply has shrunk. She also called for an increased student voice in the determination of curriculum and hiring practices...
...President Lee lacocca hopes to repeat the personal triumph he scored by bringing out the original Mustang in 1965. After years of growing longer and heavier, the Mustang has been restyled into a car a bit smaller than the original-one of the rare cases in which Detroit has shrunk the size of an existing model. The Mustang II's recommended basic price is $2,895 (about $500 more than the 1973 Mustang), but fully equipped with options it can run to more than $4,000; lacocca sees it as the first of a new class of "luxury small...