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Knopf added that the tuition hike will not completely cover the increase in expenditure, but that salaries, particularly faculty salaries, will not be increased as much as in past years...
...groundswell of U.S. public opinion. The nation is at least starting to combat gross pollution. Even so, real solutions will be extremely difficult and expensive. To wean farmers away from pesticides and chemical fertilizers, for example, would cause at least a temporary decline in farm productivity and a hike in food prices. Fortunately, ecologists are developing reasonable replacements; there is nothing wrong with organic fertilizers or the prechemical method of crop rotation. Much is also being learned about the biological control of pests. To kill the leaf hopper Dikrella, which destroys grapes and is now immune to DDT, California ecologists...
...that the new legislation will increase federal revenues by $3.7 billion in the first half of 1970 and by $2.7 billion in the fiscal year that begins July 1. But Nixon fears that the additional revenues will be eaten away by overly generous congressional appropriations, by the Social Security hike and by a continued rise in the Government's fixed costs. He warned that an inflationary deficit in the federal budget now "would be irresponsible and intolerable." For the coming fiscal year beginning July 1, Nixon added, "I shall take the action I consider necessary to present a balanced...
...collecting damages of $16,095,591. He gave $802,815 of his fees to O'Connell and Faler-for work on the cases, insisted Alioto, not as a referral fee. Later, two of the utility districts complained that they had not been notified of the fee hike, and Alioto refunded around $200,000 to them...
...hike in Social Security benefits starting January 1, benefiting 25 million recipients...