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...questions put to DRI's computer range from economic esoterica ("What is the price of strawberries in Manitoba?") to the effects of broad economic trends on specific products ("How will the change in personal income for August alter the price of chlorine?"). Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, has the answers because he has built by far the world's largest bank of economic statistics-more than 3.5 million series of figures about the U.S. and 127 other countries. These data are constantly updated by his staff of 250 economists and analysts from...
...federal government is paying 80 per cent of the cost of the project. Engineers say the construction will alter the appearance of the Square by adding more sidewalk area and re-routing some of the streets in the area...
...they had expected. Last spring, Whitlock had predicted a two-year delay in implementing the core; the three honchos now say the Faculty may well approve the initial changes in the requirement structure this year, although they pledge they won't drastically affect any students who are unable to alter their schedules in time to graduate...
...Summer School plans to admit more talented high school students--located through test scores--next summer. And since any profits the Summer School makes go right back into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' budget, it's hard to see how anyone here during the year could alter the suggestion that it's hard on these high school students, many of whom seem to believe a summer in the Yard is an automatic entree to the College...
What is more, sociobiology may have appeared at the right cultural moment. The 1970s have brought with them growing impatience and disillusionment over failed educational and environmental experiments designed to alter social behavior. The concept of social theorists that man is infinitely malleable and perfectible has fallen into disfavor. At such a time the emergence of a doctrine preaching that man is caught in history, able to exercise free will only within the limits set by his genes, may do very well indeed...