Word: broader
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Carter mistakenly sees decontrol as an end in itself, rather than as a starting point for a broader energy policy. Convinced of the merits of decontrol, Carter did not link decontrol and his windfall profits tax; this may cost consumers $32 billion over the next two years, while producing only limited energy savings. Under a comprehensive windfall profits tax, that money could go to relief for the poor, funding for new energy programs and--for those profits oil companies would be allowed to retain--investment in domestic oil production. Carter's proposed tax, however, is much too weak, providing insufficient...
...knowledge that we have now." Skip Griffin '70, then-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students, believes that blacks at the time "felt the need to provide our own leadership, develop our own goals." Now, he says, the time may have come for broader alliances between the races, the sexes, and between workers and students. Gabriella, too, cautions against romanticizing the '60s. "You've got to look at the past realistically or else you just start again and the world keeps going around in the same circles...
...addition to the changes that survive today, the committee also recommended a Committee, on Students and Community Relations and re-activation of the University Council, a broader assemblage of deans and Faculty members than the Executive Council that Pusey consulted before the bust--although the Faculty formally approved these recommendations, it never implemented them...
Myron Golden, a K-School student, said last week he left the committee because he is disappointed by its lack of social concern about broader issues facing the K-School and by the committee's unwillingness to recognize that the context in which the committee is working had hardened as a result of Bok's letters...
Golden said what he saw of the committee's report is "weak and diluted." He said he had hoped the report would set broader policies for the school...