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...force was only 15% black compared with 40% today-and assigned more officers to foot patrols. By 1980, the overall crime rate was down, and murders had dropped to 549 from the 1974 peak of 714. Before his first term was up, he had amassed a budget surplus and coaxed $ 150 million from the city's business community to finish building Renaissance Center, a gleaming cluster of office towers and a hotel on the Detroit River...
...increase is no more than the average national increase in disposable personal income, that it will not deter potential applicants from coming to Cambridge, and that it will allow the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to keep up with double-digit inflation. Although the Faculty registered a small surplus of $167,000 for the 1979-80 academic year (its fourth in a row), it anticipates a deficit of $785,000 for the just-ending year. And because tuition is one of the most malleable parts of the Faculty's budget, officials say they must turn to it to meet increasing...
Perhaps the most encouraging forecast by the board members is for a slowdown in inflation. They predict that it will end the year at around an 8.6% annual rate, vs. 13.2% for the last quarter of 1980. The small surplus in world petroleum markets is now keeping a tight grip on oil prices, and that will remove one of the key causes of recent inflation (see box). Homeownership costs, which account for about one-fourth of the consumer price index, are up from a year ago, but the increases are tapering off because sales are slow. Good crops and heavy...
...surprisingly, for he oversees radio and television for the Hartford archdiocese and has his own radio call-in show - and the parable changed, to the story of bread cast upon the waters. He received 23,000 sympathetic letters fat with checks. Father Nadolny's deficit became a surplus of about $190,000, given to the diocesan radio and television fund...
...brick and stucco bank branch on East Broadway in Tucson has only four tellers' windows. But it is the Tucson cash center for the First National Bank of Arizona, the state's second largest bank. Nearby branches holding more cash than their prescribed limits send the surplus there, and any enterprising robber could have learned the branch's role...