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...government. Asked how often they trusted Washington to do what's right, only a fifth said most of the time. Six in 10 said sometimes, and one in 10 said never. Taxes and the deficit were the most important issues, according to voter surveys by Voter News Service, a consortium of the AP and the television networks...
COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation...
...other side's fees. The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission loom in his columns as especially power hungry and antiquated. In practice, however, his anti-interventionist instincts aren't so tidy. Forbes has railed against industrial policy, for example, decrying the government-sponsored Sematech chip consortium and the Clinton Pentagon's development of flat-panel computer displays. Yet he heartily endorses Kemp-style enterprise zones that, whatever their worthy aims, amount to a textbook use of government subsidies to improve upon markets...
Wilson is the former chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the past president of both the American Sociological Association and the Consortium of Social Science Associations...
Wilson is the former chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago and the past president of both the American Sociological Association and the Consortium of Social Science Associations...