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Columbia's tuition will climb to $1900, making it the highest in the Ivy League. In 1961, when another Columbia increase put it stop the League, the other institutions, including Harvard, soon erased the gap...
...longer say to management, 'You need only be colorblind'," Farmer said. "A special effort is needed in recruitement, hiring, and training if we are ever to close the gap in American employment," which he said had been caused by racial discrimination. "No bystander is innocent today. The Negro wants no monopoly on unemployment," he told a Business School audience...
...office was as bold as it was desperate. In an urgent attempt to close Britain's critical trade deficit, he abruptly decreed an extraordinary 15% tax on imports, doubling Britain's tariffs overnight (see WORLD BUSINESS). Though Whitehall insisted that the tax was only a stop-gap measure, Britain's trading partners throughout the world protested that it was a backward-looking move that might jeopardize years of patient progress toward lower tariffs. Wilson's rebuttal was contained in his next major policy pronouncement, a detailed White Paper emphasizing that the solution to Britain...
Fist in Anger. The starter's flag had barely fluttered when Clark shot into the lead, opening up a gap...
Result: Britain's trade gap topped $1 billion in this year's first nine months, and the country has been heading toward a 1964 payments gap almost equal to its entire gold reserves. Throughout the postwar era, Britain's inability in periods of domestic prosperity to export enough to pay for its imports has meant recurring payments crises, pressure on the pound, and credit-tightening moves that have restricted economic growth...