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...student government, Miami launched an enrollment campaign. Undergrads put a full-court press on their old high schools, urging friends and relatives to apply. In one year the Miami undergraduate population grew by 777 students, to a high of 10,962. Finding itself with a surplus, the university cut $85 per student off tuition last year. This semester $50 more was lopped...
...confidential government studies suggest that unemployment, only 1.3 million last spring, will rise to over 2 million next year. Businesses cut capital spending by 3% last year and will drop it another 10% this year. The 1979 current trade deficit totaled $5.5 billion, vs. a 1978 surplus of $1.5 billion. The British Treasury, in a gloomy report, now suggests that this year's projected economic slump will be even worse than the 1973-74 decline...
Willa H. Brown '81, chairman of the Quincy House Committee, said yesterday the housing office assumes an 8 per cent attrition rate in each House and accordingly assigns a surplus number of incoming students...
Energy? "The problem isn't a shortage of fuel; it's a surplus of government...
...Some surplus grain will continue to hang over markets and may weaken prices later. In fact, a glut had weakened prices before the embargo. Despite that block, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland expects U.S. grain exports to rise from 93 million tons in fiscal 1979 to 99 million tons this year. But if need be, the Government still has plans to buy as much as 14 million tons of the embargoed grain. Farmers are also being given more financial incentives to store grain, and the Administration is considering paying them not to plant...