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...class have taken leaves of absence. Among members of the Class of 1986, only 262 took time off--nearly 150 students fewer than just four years ago. This year, for example, College officials have cited the declining number of leave-takers as a direct cause of the campus housing crunch...
...aren't psychologically prepared to beat teams at the crunch time," Lem said. "The talent and dedication is there, but we need the killer instinct when we have a chance...
With U.S. manufacturers under fierce competitive pressure from abroad and organized labor feeling the same crunch, what better time for a mail-order catalog of goods made by unionized American hands? Just such an order book will be available next week on a trial basis to some 100,000 members of the AFL-CIO. Created by Marc Schechtman, 35, general manager of a union shopping distributor in Fairfield, Iowa, the Union Label Shopper lists some 45 brand- name products, ranging from Dingo boots to West Bend appliances to ProctorSilex cookware, all at about 10% off store prices...
...that you will at some point be able to take up residence in a house," Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 wrote in a general letter to incoming students, explaining the housing system. Citing "unprecedented" housing difficulties, Dingman wrote that a campus-wide housing crunch kept the University from making that assurance this year...
...first year, he administered a budget of $204 million; today he controls $650 million. Previous presidents had little to worry about in the way of federal regulation, but Title VII of the Civil Rights Act required Bok to alter hiring policies for his whole faculty. The energy crunch and chronic inflation ravaged many universities; Bok created the Harvard Management Corp., which invested Harvard's $3.5 billion endowment in profitable stocks. Yet throughout these official and financial labors, Bok has paid primary attention to Harvard's intellectual and ethical goals, not only of the college but particularly of the business...