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...participation tickets, but this would be just one more step in making education more expensive. Another would be to make the tickets compulsory for all undergraduates, as they now are for freshmen, but this would probably put an extra tariff on those students who can least afford a hike in expenses...
Fervent geologists enjoy their work as much as their field work. It's theoretically possible to graduate with only five or six outdoors trips, but most majors like to hike over the Auburndale esker or spend an afternoon chopping tillite at Squantum Beach, and call it all schoolwork...
...weeks. At 95.5% of capacity this week, production was still climbing. Although the coal settlement had added anywhere from 10? to 25? to the cost of producing a ton of steel, the steelmakers, wary of Congress' watchful eye (see below), apparently planned to absorb the cost and not hike prices...
Even strict economy measures, such as abolishing rents and taxes on MTA property and payroll reductions, will not bring the yearly deficit below $3,000,000. The only feasible solution is the fare hike. From now on Bostonians will just have to fumble for that extra nickel...
...hike in the official U.S. gold price, went the argument, would give gold-holding nations a windfall profit to ease their dollar deficits. On its part, the U.S. could use the paper profit from its $24.5 billion gold hoard for loans to other nations...