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...fund, and not more than I percent of the total can be invested in any single company. Texas also can't invest in stocks that don't have a five-year dividend record, which bans venture capital and real estate. Last year the endowment for the 14-branch Texas system grew a modest $176 million, a far cry from Harvard's 42 percent increase...
...April 1982, President Reagan issued Executive Order 12356, widening the executive branch's discretion to classify certain research as "sensitive" in the national security context. Although some similarly restrictive attempts have been blocked by Congress, many inter-agency regulations bypass congressional review. In April of this year, for instance, the Department of Defense said it would place pre-publication clauses in some of its grants and contracts, though it has since relaxed some of the restrictions...
These guidelines, which officials say are fairly rigid compared to other major research faculties, may mean a reduction in sponsored research grants for Harvard. At about $4 million annually, the University's Department of Defense-sponsored research projects may be lost if that branch's pre-publication proposal holds, says Richard B. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for research and allied institutions...
...place on the ticket would have enormous symbolic power. Ann Lewis, like some other feminists, makes the Jackie Robinson analogy when she talks about a woman vice president. "If Branch Rickey had asked people whether to put a black on the field, would they have ever told him, 'Now'? Putting Jackie Robinson in a Dodgers uniform was good for the Dodgers, good for baseball and good for the country...
...Said he: "To me, this episode is evidence that we must proceed with deregulation." Isaac blamed the bank's troubles partly on a web of entangling state and federal laws. Continental is unable to open offices to seek consumer deposits outside Chicago, for example, because Illinois statutes prohibit branch banking. That has helped make Charts Continental dependent on large foreign customers, who are apt to withdraw their money at the first sign of trouble...