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...addition, all the ups and downs of controls last year caused cattlemen and hog raisers to limit production sharply. That means that meat prices will stay high or even rise in the months immediately ahead because the number of steers and hogs reaching market will not increase much before midyear. Whether there will be any appreciable drop in prices after that is uncertain. The most optimistic prospect is that food prices at the end of the year might be only moderately higher than today...
...hold out a bit more hope for 1974 if the Federal Reserve loosens up on the money supply and loan demand diminishes. Joseph T. Benedict, president of the Worcester, Mass., First Federal Savings and Loan Association, predicts that mortgage rates could come down as low as 8% by midyear. Even if he is right, though, many would-be house buyers have to write off the rest of 1973 and mutter "Wait until next year." Meanwhile, they have to live somewhere, and that necessity provides the only bright spot in an otherwise dreary housing picture. The once sluggish rate of apartment...
...laissez-faire farm policy that would abandon some price supports and reduce other subsidies. They returned as much acreage as possible to production, dropped export subsidies and prepared to "empty" the Government storage bins. Though they forecast that such moves would cause food prices to level off after midyear, that was not soon enough for irate consumers...
...approximately 440 students who took the four-hour midyear exam, at least 48 received grades of D or E and were forced to drop the course. About 65 students with grades of C- were urged to consider withdrawing from the course, Weston T. Borden, associate professor of Chemistry, said yesterday...
...nation's colleges and universities, January can be the busiest month. Christmas vacation ends; midyear exams are either just beginning or just completed; the basketball season heats up-and corporate recruiters descend on campus to start their annual quest for talent. In recent years the job market dwindled. Now, though there may be snow on the quad from Princeton to Portland State, the winter of student discontent is waning...