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...short supply. In the University of California system, for example, only 1.7% of tenured faculty are black, 2.5% Hispanic and 10.1% female. Says Duncan Rice, N.Y.U.'s dean of the faculty of arts and sciences: "My department chairmen are aware that they had better never miss an opportunity to bring on a highly qualified minority or woman." Black Historian David L. Lewis, recruited to Rutgers, was courted by schools in the South, Midwest and East before he quit the University of California at San Diego for a heavy salary, a light teaching load and a budget to travel in Europe...
Yeltsin grew a little too outspoken at a meeting of the policymaking Central Committee in late October. Interrupting the agenda, the Moscow party chief delivered a harangue accusing senior leaders of obstructing his efforts to bring about perestroika. Exactly what he said remains unclear. Gorbachev, in his attack on Yeltsin last week, said that Yeltsin had "in fact sought to call into question the Communist Party's work on restructuring and the character of changes and went as far as to say that restructuring was giving nothing to the people." Gorbachev implied that Yeltsin brought up matters relating...
...Finally last week Reagan seemed determined to shore up the dollar once again. As he posed for photographs with Israeli President Chaim Herzog, the President was asked about the currency's future direction. "I don't look for a further decline," he said. "We're not doing anything to bring it down." Those words immediately acted like a parachute on the dollar's drop. "We weren't sure the President knew what he was saying, but his comments certainly helped shore up the dollar," said a London currency analyst...
Most economists believe a deficit cut is necessary to prevent a loss of confidence that might bring on a recession. The contrary opinion among a few thinkers is that too large a budget reduction would sap momentum from the economy at a weak moment. But that idea seems increasingly implausible in the light of Washington's current paralysis. Says Economist Rudolph Penner of the Urban Institute: "The last thing that should keep you awake right now is the fear that Congress will do too much...
...most asked economic question since Black Monday is whether the crash * will bring a general slump, and yet few economists feel certain one way or another. Says Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers: "We're in the eye of a hurricane right now. All the usual indicators aren't very useful in telling what's going to happen next." While the consensus is that growth will slow to a laggard 1% or 2% early in 1988, there are no concrete signs so far of a drastic consumer-spending slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that...