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...years. Rising inflation and energy costs, which hit the Faculty of Arts and Sciences particularly hard, hurt all 42 separate budgets in the University and prevented many from bre king even. But through the luck of a warm winter which kept down energy costs, and steps taken to tighten up financial management of the budget the Faculty halved its projected deficit of $500,000 and stands a good chance of breaking even in the current fiscal year...
WELFARE. Both Ford and Carter favor reforming the haphazard, unfair and inefficient welfare system. The President proposes mainly procedural changes to tighten up the rickety structure. Jimmy Carter would revamp the whole system?taking the burden away from the cities (New York City alone last year paid out $700 million) and giving it entirely to the federal and state governments...
...because of the "exaggerated permissiveness" of recent years. And because the task forces he has set up to review undergraduate curriculum and life take their cues from him--he denies this although everyone involved sees the entire review as his brainchild--their recommendations will undoubtedly reflect a desire to tighten up the educational system...
...There was a conscious attempt to tighten up as opposed to last year's excessive number, and to return to our historical pattern of awarding 35 to 40 per cent of the class honors," Mansfield said...
...sell them. "We are appealing to our employees' sense of responsibility," says a company spokesman. "We point out that they will be helping to ensure the company's future if they take a few hundred marks less." The company has not denied rumors that it might tighten up the rules of the employee-purchase fringe benefit if its plea is not heeded...