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Sheep are cheap, too, at least compared with other large livestock. A good animal can be bought for $40. In summer they help keep mowing costs down. Regularly bred ewes add one or two lambs a year, which can be either sold for meat or used to increase the flock. The shepherd can expect to obtain about 10 Ibs. of fleece per sheep a year, which can either be spun or sold for an average price...
...back because it is not working. On the contrary, if a problem is not solved by throwing money at it, the tendency is to throw still more. As Robert Hartman, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution puts it: "Any time a crisis arises, the only response is to add another program...
...spending more. The price of Califano's plan was originally estimated at $2.8 billion, but its critics now claim that the plan would increase welfare payments by $20 billion a year or more. Congress is considering other ways of tackling welfare, all of which face a major problem: they add a lot more money to the budget during a period of concern over inflation...
Those three goals--implementation of the Core, renewed scrutiny of graduate education, and a continuing attention to the imperatives of fundraising--add up to a busy future for Rosovsky. Yet it is also a future that has long been a point of speculation. Since last December, when he apparently rejected an offer to become president of Yale University, Rosovsky has puzzled observers interested in his plans for life after University Hall. Some sources speculated that Rosovsky turned down the reported Yale offer because he was unwilling to abandon his direction of Harvard's own reforms; others concluded that...
Quad problems aside, freshman year is a unique experience in University life, and in part an underlying reason for the Fox Plan. "You can make a list of the stresses of freshman year and they all add up to what George Goethals calls the 'crisis of adolescence,'" Moses says, pointing out the classic case of the freshman who leaves home, where he has succeeded at everything he has tried, and finds great difficulty dealing with freedom and with academic and social demands...