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...seems to deny that many Republicans abandoned their principles - especially fiscal responsibility - while in power, but even some across-the-board conservatives see enforced homogeneity as a sure path to oblivion. "Chick-fil-A can get fabulously wealthy with a 20% market share," scoffs Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, President Ronald Reagan's political director. "In our business, you need 50% plus one." It's probably true that since 200,000 Pennsylvania Republicans have switched parties, Specter followed them to save his own political skin, but it's hard to see how the mass exodus bodes well...
...been looking for places to cut. And they have found them. Departments have slashed around 15 percent of costs, Allston development has been significantly delayed, and undergraduate Houses have had to tweak refurbishment plans. Furthermore, the university went ahead with a voluntary early retirement program and an across-the-board hiring and wage freeze...
...Princeton and Yale—both of which have not instituted across-the-board cuts in faculty searches—are maintaining hiring levels, well aware of the increased scrutiny of faculty hiring at schools like Harvard, where, despite six new searches announced yesterday, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has still seen its hiring slashed by half since this fall...
...administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will release a preliminary, across-the-board fiscal plan for FAS this week—a move aiming to bring some clarity to a muddled financial picture as the Faculty begins to prepare its tightened budget next week...
...eventual cuts will not adhere to an across-the-board percentage figure, but will come from a careful consideration of the priorities of each department, Smith said...