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Julie Fouquet '80, chairman of UCHSR, said yesterday she believes Bok's rotation system is vague in failing to state the length of time each student will serve on the committee while allotting two years to both faculty and alumni representatives...
Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and chairman of the Core Committee on Mathematics Requirement, said committee members also doubt they will grant more than one half-year course exemption for Philosophy concentrators...
...unable to maintain the momentum of unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual...
...length and depth of this slump will be largely determined by monetary policy. In the eight weeks since Paul Volcker took over as Federal Reserve chairman, businessmen's basic cost of borrowing money has jumped from 11.75% to 13.5%, the highest in history. Most board members hold that the increases will soon stop but interest rates will remain steep over the next year. Some fear that the Fed may worsen the recession by inducing a classic credit crunch, in which little money is available for borrowing to finance new plants and create jobs...
Last week Chrysler's voluble chairman, Lee Iacocca, took his corporate aid campaign on the road. In a session with TIME, Iacocca was characteristically outspoken. Excerpts...