...soaring costs at the local and State levels, the need for school construction is greater than ever. Like Alice in "Wonderland, we have had to run faster and faster just to stand still. We feel we deprive children of their birthright when we push them into greatly overcrowded...

...equalization-incentive formula proposed in S. 723 is interesting and seems to merit serious consideration. Despite greater effort at the local and State levels,...of the tremendously greater cost of not providing itMr. Chairman, we recognize the outstanding ability and the sincerity of your subcommittee. We are...

...decades and are at present greati than ever, and costs are higher. Like Alice in Wonderland, we liai had to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place, fh members, as taxpayers, are willing to pay their fair share for qualit education for their children....

...soaring costs at the local and State levels, the need for school construction is greater than ever. Like Alice in Wonderland, we have had to run faster and faster just to stand still. We feel we deprive children of their birthright when we push them into greatly overcrowded...

...Economists call this "the declining terms of trade." The Queen in Through the Looking Glass called it having to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place. Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega described this scissors effect to the UN in terms of the increase in...

...actually increasing. Global demographic trends make for an Alice in Wonderland phenomenon. You have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place: the aging of the population means that without major new commitments to blindness control, cataract...

...year, and the more they raised, the lower prices fell. Like the character in Alice in Wonderland, they had to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place. <• Such debtor farmers quickly understood and readily embraced the promise of an expanded money supply...

...the "Red Queen effect" citing the Red Queen's statement to Alice in Alice in Wonderland: "You g0 have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place.' In today's ever stronger growing race for capital and returns, firms which have traditional financial...

...prohibitively expensive to achieve further reductions. Like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, who had to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place, companies must spend more and more on pollution control just to maintain a constant rate of environmental...

...coevolution has been dubbed an "arms race," or the "Red Queen effect." after her comment to Alice: "You have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place!" Where this effect applies, all species keep changing in a never-ending race simply to sustain their...