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...will also set off a round of consumer spending that will do nothing but increase inflationary pressures--a sort of hyperthyroid version of the Reagan inaugural bash. One group guaranteed better times ahead under the Reagan years are the defense contractors, who will, as they did in the 1960s, absorb absurdly wasteful amounts of money. In return for this windfall, the nation will receive little: no great number of jobs because defense spending is a notoriously ineffecient way to create employment; no economic benefit because defense spending is non-productive and inflationary; and no peace of mind because the American...
There have always been critics who said that the school was growing too much and too fast. This year, some think their suspicions have been confirmed. Long before President Bok last year ordered the Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program to absorb the GSD City and Regional Planning (CRP) program, Graham T Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, argued that an expanded home was necessary. Now it's urgent...
...difficulty of being both a scholar and a mother. "I'm always hoping I'll learn to shift gears as my mother did." she said last year. "She could live every aspect of her life with great intensity--being with her children, writing--whatever she was doing would completely absorb...
...beginning to wax eloquent on the "granitic formations" that absorb moisture and the "confluence of three rivers" that cool the air when a journalist for the newsweekly Le Point whispered "fifty-two to forty-eight" in his ear. Without any noticeable change of expression or vocal inflection, he continued his explanations of cloud formations...
What is to be done? The U.S., long a nation of immigrants itself, can surely continue to absorb something close to the number of legal entrants it now accepts. But it must act swiftly and resolutely to make it more difficult for foreigners to come here illegally - and for businesses to hire them. A national ID card is a bad idea. Tougher border enforcement is a good one, as are swifter deportation proceedings, a "guest worker" program with sufficient protections for the "guests," stiff penalties for those who employ illegal aliens, and amnesty for illegals already here. The U.S. must...