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In fact, the inflation rate can-and must-be brought down. There is no mystery about what causes inflation: too many demands by too many people upon a limited amount of national wealth. The cure is more difficult to prescribe, but surely it involves discipline, limits, sacrifice. The means to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Ten Ways to Cut Inflation | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Michael R. Rhum, a resident of Conant Hall, a graduate student dormitory on Oxford Street, said yesterday it would have been impractical to have two Conant Halls, because the present Conant Hall already receives misdirected mail from Conant laboratories.

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: North House Votes Against Name Change | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

As for alternate types of energy, Goodwin says solar energy is impractical in the Boston area climate. "Payback is in the 20 year range," he says. Goodwin adds Harvard looking into solar energy when building the new athletic complex.

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: The Great Chilled Water Bazaar Or Harvard's Energy Labyrinth | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

Besides the skyscraper's towering stilts and bright aluminum sheathing, its most unusual feature is the angled wedge on top. It was originally designed to house luxury apartments-a plan that was dropped because the zoning laws were not advantageous. Then the bank hoped to use its southern-faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Classy Newcomer on the Skyline | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

There remains, Kuechenmeister admits, a weed in his garden of pleasures. "Prices and salaries keep going up, but pensions don't," he observes. "I'm a little worried, but there's nothing I can do about it." One impractical dream: "If I only knew we were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Pains and Pleasures of Being Thrown Out at 65 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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