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...Louis Armistead, Harvard's assistant vice president for government and community affairs, last week called the ordinance "loosely drawn" and "too arbitrary" and said that while in principle Harvard was not opposed to conversation, the ordinance might "somewhat constrain" the University's actions...
SLAVERY, its immorality and its legacy, shape and constrain the image of America's most lethal conflict--its Civil War. Yet the Civil War served as more than the military midwife to abolition...
Critics charge-and White House officials privately concede-that the U.S. is ill prepared to back up Carter's tough talk. Declared former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger last week: "The military forces presently and prospectively in place in the region are not sufficient by themselves adequately to constrain Soviet moves if the Soviet Union were to become more aggressive...
...continuing through today. The Church Committee report sent shockwaves through the academic community not only because it revealed unethical activities but also because it demonstrated how pervasive those activities were. Nothing has occurred in the intervening years to change our minds about the need for legislation to constrain the intelligence agencies in their relationships with the academic community. Indeed, the need for legislation has taken on a new urgency as the result of the decision of CIA Director Stansfield Turner to reject the authority of Harvard University to enforce its own guidelines on the relationships between the Harvard community...
...most discouraging aspect of rising oil prices, said Okun, is that the recession will only temporarily and modestly constrain inflation. At very best, the rate of price increases will come down to 8%. After the 1974-75 recession, inflation was 5%, which at that time was considered "intolerable, horrible and unacceptable." Indexing, which automatically raises wages and pensions along with the price index, is not a cure but a disease that institutionalizes inflation, added Okun. He estimates that "if all payrolls were indexed instead of the roughly 15% that are now, the consumer price index would have risen more than...