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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event that gasoline prices were to increase sharply, growth in the economy as a whole would not necessarily slow, or unemployment rise, if the proceeds of the tax were recycled to consumers, as the various Administration proposals recommend. But the impact on consumer prices would be severe. A full 2.4 points of the nation's current 13.1% inflation rate is traceable directly to increases in gasoline prices this year. Tacking another 50? a gal. onto fuel costs by most estimates would add three or four points more to the consumer price index next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Carter Considers a Gas Tax | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...with little and conflicting evidence to go on, variously advise couples concerned about harming the baby to abstain totally during pregnancy, to do whatever they want in any month, or to forgo orgasm in later months because it causes uterine contractions and might induce premature labor. Most often, they recommend avoiding intercourse during the last four to six weeks of pregnancy. Now comes a report that is bound to disturb expecting couples-perhaps unnecessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pregnant Sex | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...assembly is not pressuring the committees to vote a certain way, Joseph F. McDonough '81, assembly chairman, said yesterday. "Anybody that has [lobbied for continuing the boycott] has sort of done it as individuals," he said. "The assembly just voted to recommend the boycott," he added...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: House Lobbying | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

When students heard last spring that the visiting committee to Afro-American Studies might recommend demoting Afro-Am to an interdisciplinary committee, they demonstrated to show their support for the department. The protests subsided, but this week the unexpected release of the committee's report revived an old debate. The committee did recommend that Afro-am become a commitee in light of the problems they said have plagued the department since its establishment ten years...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: Sticks and Stones | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...originally planned to meet next Tuesday to vote on a resolution calling for Silber's dismissal. However, Silber--who will chair the meeting--postponed the assembly because he will be out of the country on that date. He said he is not concerned by the possibility the faculty will recommend his ouster because such a vote would show "absolute contempt for civil liberties and civil rights. You don't decide by popular vote on the truth or falsity of charges that have not been examined or investigated...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: John R. Silber: War and Peace at Boston University | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

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