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Throughout his career, Lintner worked to broaden the applications of his capital market theory research. His most recent work, for example, examined the consequences when investors do not act in their best interest or are not able to make certain types of investments. His last published work analyzed how well the capital asset pricing model fit the real world...
...Administration moved quickly to take the offensive. White House pollsters discovered that as economic worries have begun to ease, schools have emerged as a strong public concern. Moreover, the education issue could be used to broaden the President's image beyond Reaganomics and defense. A push for better schools, aides reasoned, would help him woo women and regain some of the blue-collar workers who were part of his 1980 coalition but have since strayed. "With education," a White House adviser explains, "you reach out beyond liberal-conservative lines...
...Shultz reiterated last week, contains four elements: 1) increased aid in developing the economy and democratic institutions; 2) military assistance aimed at strengthening the Salvadoran army so that it can keep the guerrillas at bay long enough for the first goal to produce results; 3) support for negotiations to broaden participation in the democratic process, notably in the elections now scheduled for late 1983; and 4) encouragement of multilateral talks in which other countries in the region would try to help solve security problems. That combination of aims, said Shultz, "is the policy that has been and remains fully...
...found that in an academic setting they can explore each others minds with fewer inhibitions than if they meet each other in diplomatic roles. Here they're free agents," he adds. "The Center contributes to broaden them personally." Just being in the University community, in fact, can have that effect; In the late 1960's and early '70s, Brown says, the Fellows took a keen interest in the student marches and protests, and some of them actually joined them...
...government has made some attempts to broaden its international links, sending military advisers to such countries as Libya, Syria and Zimbabwe. It has gained useful mileage from the tours of its daring and innovative acrobats. On occasion, it has even invited small groups of American academics and congressional officials to visit...