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...indeed yawns no wider than that, Simon leans toward a kind of semi-rationing: a system that would allot a certain number of gallons of gas a week to each driver (or car) at taxes no higher than those now in effect but would clamp a heavy "excess-use" tax on purchases above that basic limit. The plan has some advantages over outright rationing. It would assure everyone of a basic gasoline supply while permitting people to choose freely how much they really wanted to drive. It would also produce new Government revenues that could be used to fund mass...
First, the combined operating surplus of $2.1 million amounts to less than 1 per cent on a $217 million expenditure. Budgets are by their very nature a complicated set of forecasts and estimates, subject to much wider swings. Considering that we are dealing with more than 20 major faculty and service department budgets and a host of smaller ones, and that each unit operates with relative autonomy within its own budget, such a difference is a composite achievement, not a sign of financial maneuvering...
...land was stolen from Indians who were hanged or murdered for trying to retake it. Troell does not blame the immigrants for a situation they did not create ("I paid a fair price for the land," says Karl-Oscar). The Indian dilemma is a symptom of the wider problem that underlies the history of the immigrant experience. At the center of the quest for the immigrant dream is a hollow place, born of the loss of the old home and bred of the sacrifices that won a new one. As Karl-Oscar grows older, he prospers, moving from sodhouse...
...women in the Radcliffe Admissions Office deserve the same salaries as their male counterparts at Harvard, but just as certainly, Harvard has an obligation to greatly increase the number of minority group members in the GSAS and work to remove the various obstacles discouraging women from entering a wider variety of academic fields. These measures, which would help guarantee real racial and sexual equality in hiring by enlarging the pool of applicants for academic positions, are not called for in the plan, but they should be implemented swiftly anyway. It is time Harvard's plans for affirmative action move from...
...improvised: in the 1957 Grey Cup a halfback racing down the sidelines suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside the 20-yd. line. Because...