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...undergraduate paid $6525 for tuition, room and board. Student tuition made up 22.8 percent of the University income. Ten years later, each student paid $16,145 for a year at Harvard, and tuition paid 26.7 percent of total University expenses. Tuition has recently risen between 3 and 5 percent over the concurrent inflation rate. comparing the rise in tuition to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which measures national inflation for a breadbasket of consumer goods, is inappropriate. Instead, they say, the tuition hikes should be measured against the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), which guages increases in university expenses...
Doug Flutie had risen from the grave, which in this case took the form of a slab of wood beside the football field. He had conquered...
With its new Pavilion for Japanese Art, which opens to the public this week, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has risen from architectural hodgepodge to full-blast cacophony. Where but in Tinseltown could you see such an overlay of styles? First, the flaccid institutional moderne of the original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce...
Studio apartments at Soldiers' Field Park, which were offered for $550 to $655 per month last year, are now $591 to $704 per month, an increase of 7 percent. One-bedroom apartments on Shaler Lane has risen by 13 percent, as have tow- and three-bedroom apartments on Walker...
...political hand has been strengthened immeasurably by his country's seemingly unstoppable economy, which last year was the fastest growing in the world. South Korea's gross national product in 1987 topped $119 billion, and has risen at the staggering average annual rate of 8.8% for the past two decades. The country financed its fast expansion by running up a foreign debt that reached $47 billion by 1986. But in that same year South Korea registered a small current-account trade surplus, the first in its history, and last year expanded it to $7.7 billion. That overage has helped enable...