Word: costly
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While the Government is striving to improve statistical accuracy, the effort has been repeatedly undermined by budget constraints. Federal funding for the compiling of statistics has fallen from $1.7 billion in 1980 to $1.6 billion in 1987, even though the cost of gathering data has gone up. The Administration wants more money for the job, but as Congress struggles to shrink the budget deficit by cutting spending, the chances seem slim that something as unglamorous as statistics will survive...
That disturbs the experts who rely so heavily on Government data. Says Thomas Juster, an economics professor at the University of Michigan: "This kind of activity doesn't involve a major cost. It's a small-potatoes operation in terms of what the Federal Government does. But it also doesn't have any political attraction to the general public." Complains Henry Kaufman, the famed financial forecaster and former chief economist of Salomon Brothers: "The Government has not given a high enough priority to improving the quality of compiling economic data. We really do not cherish people...
...cost of Cambridge real estate has skyrocketed in recent years, Harvard has stepped up its efforts to ease housing problems for incoming faculty--one of the most essential services Harvard provides...
...issue of Harvard's role as an employer does not touch only support staff. Junior professors, who number about 400 in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must cope with salaries too small to accommodate Cambridge's high cost of living, jobs that rarely lead to tenure and heavy teaching loads. Junior faculty members say their transient lives often leave them feeling detached from the Harvard community. The administration has begun to show concern for its junior professors, as Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence this week issued his second report on the subject...
...service like that would be much more effective if Harvard would advertise it more thoroughly" says William Jaeger, a HUCTW organizer. University officials "want to make that service available, but at a cheap cost...