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...year ago. Other regional centers profit in some ways only to lose in others. Buffalo's ocean tonnage has doubled, but its great milling business has sagged because Midwest grain carriers now head straight overseas without stopping at Buffalo. Lake Erie steelmakers enjoy cheaper ore imports but suffer stiffer foreign competition, because imported steel is cheaper when brought in through the St. Lawrence...
...acre Los Angeles campus, U.S.C. has an endowment of only $8,300,000. Incomparably richer is northern California's Stanford University, which has only 8,786 students and a $98 million endowment. Incomparably better is the state-run University of California at Los Angeles, which has stiffer academic standards and higher faculty salaries. To U.S.C. remains the past glory of nine Rose Bowl triumphs,* which the school went broke achieving, and the dubious honor (snapped one professor) "of having a sweaty jersey as the university symbol...
According to Councilor Pearl K. Wise, the new, somewhat stiffer parking ordinance represents "a happy compromise" between its predecessor and a more severe fine schedule, proposed in April, which died in the committee on ordinances. Voting against the new law were Councilors Thomas M. McNamara, Walter J. Sullivan, and Alfred E. Velucci...
Parking violations around the Square and the rest of Cambridge have long been a nuisance, and stiffer fines, as proposed by the City Council, along with stiffer enforcement would be a firm step towards solving the problem...
...take in a whole lot less, because the penalties will be stiffer," Curry replied. "The trend is going to go down--fewer violators...