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...increases continue apace, the rate of increase is starting to slack off. Last year's rise in fees was $580, and the current hike represents slightly higher rates of increase in tuition and board and a much lower one in room costs...
...feel ambivalent about change in the small ways, like a man standing up or holding the door," says Enid Slack, community affairs director of the United Bank of Denver. "There is now a fear syndrome in men. They are afraid women might be so liberated that they might be offended by such courtesies...
...that an appropriate policy? Republicans Sprinkel and Murray L. Weidenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, say yes: they think that the recovery now in prospect is the fastest that the U.S. can afford without kicking up inflation. Democrats Heller, Okun and Pechman insist that there is so much slack in the economy that a more expansionary policy would speed recovery and bring the jobless rate down faster while producing little or no added inflation. Yet Pechman concludes resignedly that in the present political climate, an extension of the 1975 tax cut and a money supply growth within Federal Reserve...
...Warner V. Slack, associate professor of Medicine, said yesterday he thinks there was a consensus at the Friday meeting that the school should try to increase the size of its classes to accommodate more socio-economically disadvantaged students, but that "nobody seemed to know where the money would come from...
...fell, Japan's aggressive businessmen swiftly expanded foreign sales, helping to right their economy but annoying such hard-pressed trading partners as the U.S., Britain and France. Last year alone Japan increased its exports over the year before by 50%, to $58 billion. And this year, despite the slack in global trade, it expects to export another $57 billion...