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...been able to relieve Willowbrook's gross understaffing. In December 1970, the state imposed a hiring freeze on all institutions. Willowbrook, which then had 274 staff vacancies, is now 900 short of its authorized roster of 3,628. For sections housing the most retarded, the recommended staff-patient ratio is 1 to 4; in some of Willowbrook's worst wards now, it is actually...
...that favor Canada. Under its terms, Canadian-built cars have duty-free access to the U.S. market. But only Canadian manufacturers can bring cars built by their Detroit parent companies across the border without paying duty; individual Canadians importing U.S.-made cats must pay a 15% tariff. Also, the ratio of cars assembled in Canada to cars sold there must not fall below 1964 levels. Canadian plants were then turning out four cars of every seven sold...
...while, both sides were happy. Then, after 1965, Detroit's automakers launched an expansion in Canada to take advantage of lower labor costs and to help maintain the ratio in the face of an expected sales rise. The plants began turning out large numbers of autos, but the sales rise never came. Instead, Canadians started buying inexpensive European and Japanese imports. So the unwanted cars-many of them Mavericks, Pintos and other compacts and subcompacts-were sent duty free into the U.S., where such models were becoming highly popular...
Border Rush. U.S. officials say that the pact provides an unfair trade advantage for Canada. To increase the sales of U.S.-made cars, they want to scrap the 1964 ratio and the tariff on cars imported by anyone but a dealer...
...form is all. His only discernible goal as President is to avoid risk to his institution and minimize conflict which might threaten it by making cosmetic concessions which divide and pacify the constituencies he must manipulate. His change in Harvard's sex-ratio is an excellent example of this tyle of pacification. Bok has no desire to compromise Harvard's honored principle of male supremacy by making admission 1 to 1 or sex-blind. Demonstrations, petitions, letters, lawsuits--nothing will force him to admit that women deserve an equal place in the University. But neither will he make a profitless...