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...isolated decision on the part of the administration. Perceiving a need to cut costs, the administration once again decided to do so at the expense of the most poorly paid of the teaching staff. This may be seen to relate to administrative policy, so far successful, to further offset costs by continually raising an already outrageous tuition rate for both graduates and undergraduates...
...slightly impressed, since the union had already been rewarded in previous contracts for some of the productivity gains. In addition, many of the companies that signed the contract had not even waited for the Pay Board to act before applying for freight-rate increases of 15% to 25% to offset increased labor costs. Thus the contract's inflationary potential was almost immediately apparent...
...here are very interested in society. Not all of the city is ghettos by any means. It is up to me to strike a balance." When the paper is serving a heavy diet of what she calls "problem stories" on drug abuse and prostitution, says Paxson, she likes to offset that by sending a reporter to cover an event like the midwinter ball in St. Petersburg, Fla. Paxson speaks for many editors, male and female. Ranking men executives, in fact, are often the strongest advocates of leaving women's pages in their old mode. Frequently changes occur only after...
Equally Tough. Still, several women nowadays are getting the chance to take over control of films from directors' chairs, and a larger number are attaining considerable influence as scriptwriters. This change may partly offset the long-entrenched discrimination of the movie industry. It may give some deserving talents a break. But will it make any significant difference in the kind of movies that result...
...rising sea of red ink. In 1970, federal, state and local governments spent $60 billion more than they took in, and the deficit certainly yawned even wider last year. Meanwhile, taxes keep going up and up. Though federal taxes have been reduced since 1960, the cuts have been offset by severe increases in state and city income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes and "sin" taxes on liquor and cigarettes. Between 1960 and 1970, the tax burden on each American man, woman and child almost doubled, from $711 to $1,348. Many Americans, worried about just what will...