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...more general level, deButts thinks CEOs are useful because of their moderation. "We don't just oppose everything," he says. "We attempt to find ways to negotiate a position both sides can live with." Through the Business Roundtable, the CEOs worked out the administration's current national health plan which makes the plan's implementation dependent on the progress of the economy. DeButts also mentions the consumer protection bill, and the labor law reform act as areas that the CEOs tried to modify. In both of the latter, however, their efforts at moderation failed, and the business community at large...
...lease also specifies the identities of the building's tenants. Previously, 8 Mellon St. had been leased to World Student Housing Inc. (WSH). A lawyer retained by the University found WSH was not a corporation. Current tenants of the building have said they believed former tenants had incorporated the organization...
...strength of Galbraith's book comes from its criticism of current wisdom about mass poverty and U.S. government programs to combat it. He claims that the U.S. government and academics, liberals and conservatives have approached the poverty backwards, once they discovered that the problem existed. Uninterested in poverty relief until 1950, the U.S.'s sudden fascination with the problem at that point stemmed from a smug feeling of post-war cultural and economic supremacy combined with the belief that poverty opened doors for communist take-over...
...that in the U.S., income can be increased simply by a little macroeconomic maneuvering, and most of the time each individual can boost his own economic status if he so wishes. In places like India, however, Malthusian forces keep the poor poor. Growing population and the overwhelming pressure of current needs swamp small increases in national product. The models of economic growth taught to eager American college students do not apply to a country with hordes of people on the edge of subsistence. Centuries of poverty have destroyed the people's desire for change. In a process Galbraith calls "accommodation...
...years later, the lessons of that spring could not be more to the point. A great deal has happened in the decade since that strike, and so it is easy enough to let the message of that time slip out of our minds. Most members of the current senior class were, after all, only in the sixth grade when then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely...