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...This year they changed to a new type of seasonal adjustment that understated the figures in the spring. So the fall figures are overstated to offset the earlier mistake," Feldstein said...
...member of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers, suggests that the White House might urge keeping wage boosts to 6% a year and price hikes to 4% (wages would be allowed to go up more than prices because some of the pay increases would presumably be offset by higher labor productivity). However, these standards would be flexible and would take into allowance such things as unusually low profit margins or the need for catch-up wage increases...
...world, but odd personal eras, those less obtrusive small changes that in retrospect loom large in the heart. Like the time, at the close of Prohibition, when Hallowell's restaurant in Edgartown got a liquor license and went to hell, gastronomically speaking. Or the introduction of offset printing in place of the old linotype at the Vineyard Gazette. At the time Hough, somewhat uneasily, one suspects, tried to see it all as progress. He quotes Carlyle: "He who first shortened the labor of copyists by the device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings...
Hale Champion, vice president for financial affairs said yesterday that fees might be necessary to offset operating costs at the Fogg Art Museum and Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture...
Coburn said that less than one-third of the Fogg's budget comes from endowment. The museum must rent classroom spaces, and seek government grants and contracts the offset the cost of running the facility...