Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Congress is moving belatedly to supply funds to equip the nation's airways and airports for the superjet age, and most of the load will fall squarely on the air traveler. By spring Congress is likely to pass legislation to raise nearly $1.8 billion a year in new revenues. The ticket tax on domestic flights will rise from 5% to 8%, and there will be a new "head tax" of $3 on passengers flying overseas and a 2% tax on air freight. The money will be used to improve airways by adding new navigation and communications aids; airports will also...
...report, which Pusey delivered last week to the Board of Overseers, covers a wide range of topics, from ROTC, black studies, and last spring's disruptions to academic reforms and Harvard's financial position...
Pusey predicts a "measure of retrenchment" in the University's growth, details the academic and financial cost of last spring's strike, and defends his own decision to call police into University Hall...
Beginning his description of last spring, Pusey says that "the distressing events of 1968-69 appear to have represented a culmination (if not yet a final resolution) of a sequence of misbegotten attitudes and events which began to evolve several years back...
Magaziner wouldn't allow himself all the credit, though. "I've sat down with a number of administrators here," he said last spring, "for hours and hours, where we started off at completely opposite ends, and, after enough talking, we could in most cases come to agreement. It was because they listened...