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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business has been hiring fewer people -notably young executives and technicians-it stands to lose many of the fresh, new ideas that make the economy grow and prosper. The paring of research will have consequences that can only be guessed at. The pressure on profits also aggravates inflation: the tighter the squeeze on earnings, the less room corporations have to absorb the increase in their costs without raising their prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROFITS: Postwar Low for Margins | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

Reginald H. Phelps '30, associate dean of the GSAS, said yesterday, "We're all agreed that the only way to assure the Black Prize Fellowships in perpetuity is to raise perhaps five or six million dollars, and finance them from the income. Variable funds are going to get tighter and tighter...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: GSAS Changes Fellowships Policy | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

Both Losey and Hall have requested-with success-that their names be removed from their films. Now Losey has started agitating with the Directors Guild for protection against future alteration. Tighter contracts are obviously called for. "This is a frightening precedent," he says. "Once they begin on this kind of thing, where will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Edited for Television | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Until the fall of 1969 the order was enforced-laxly-at Harvard by the agency which provided the University the most money, the Atomic Energy Commission. At that time, all University enforcement was transferred to the contrast compliance division of HEW and tighter enforcement was begun...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: HEW Buys Harvard Plan To End Biases in Hiring | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...surface, the present economic recession seems to be the major cause of the coincidental decline in applications and the economic viability of the prep schools. But according to the admissions directors, the drop in applications is due to a wide variety of reasons. In addition to tighter money and steeper tuitions, the most frequently cited objections to prep school stem from...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Prep School Blues | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

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