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...after countless public events organized by students and workers, a petition signed by more than one thousand students and 150 faculty--including professors across the ideological spectrum from Cornel R. West '74 to former Sen. Alan K. Simpson--and several resolutions passed by the Cambridge City Council has President Neil L. Rudenstine failed to commit to a living wage? Why do Rudenstine and company seem to believe that the question of the living wage will fade away if only they wait long enough? The minimal cost of implementation--only one-half of one percent of the interest on the endowment...
...Many analysts say a gray cloud has been hovering over the NASDAQ since New Year's, one noticed by institutional investors but not by the individual investors caught up in ongoing enthusiasm for all things Internet. Throw in the promise of continued interest rate hikes by Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and it adds up to a major correction waiting to happen. A correction is generally held to be a 10-percentage-point drop-off. At its low point Tuesday, the NASDAQ was off about 25 percent from its high...
...there--but they can't prove it, they don't know how big it is, and they haven't a clue if it's dangerous. All of which is creating a bit of a stir among the dismal-science lot as their famous and thought-to-be-flawless colleague, Alan Greenspan, relentlessly jacks up interest rates to wage an undeclared war on this vague creature...
Every time Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan opens his mouth the stock market gyrates, making an already volatile market even more so [BUSINESS, March 13]. I think Congress should pass a law forbidding the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to comment on stock prices with the chance of influencing the market direction. We should let the free-market economy be free of manipulation by powerful people inside and outside the government. SHALINI MOONDRA Marlboro...
Carefree shoppers have no greater nemesis than Alan Greenspan. The relentless Federal Reserve chairman has been tweaking our collective guilt for months now, urging us not to stake our fortunes on the mercurial stock market and reminding us that our security depends on prudent savings plans. And now Greenspan will have additional ammunition for his attack on spendthrifts: According to new government reports, U.S. consumer spending outpaced personal income in February, and savings dipped to a record...