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...have been dialing the same numbers. Professors still tell stories about Harvard fund-raisers leaving alumni offices only to let in another Harvard fund-raisers to plead his case. As for the Ford Foundation, the days of the big matching grants are over. New tax laws designed to curtail foundation assets have caused organizations like Ford to cut off their grants--not with a slow phase-out but an abrupt yanking...
...well. It follows that the university must do everything possible to ensure within it the fullest degree of intellectual freedom. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessary also deprives others of the right to listen to those views...
...slashed. Then the U.S. might get the most painful of all economic combinations: roaring inflation and a deepening recession besides. It is not even certain that Ford's program would cut oil imports as much as he desires; consumers might choose to pay the high prices rather than curtail their driving and turn down thermostats...
...industry -which provides 40% of the nation's wealth but less than 1% of its jobs-into agriculture. Although Venezuela has vast tracts of potentially productive farm land, agriculture has been so mismanaged that the country will have to import $450 million worth of food this year. To curtail a rural exodus that has already concentrated 78% of his 12 million countrymen in the nation's major cities, Pérez has offered incentives to lure people back to the fields. The government promised to assume past debts incurred by small farmers. It also removed price restraints...
...Church in America, troubled by high interest rates on mortgage loans, has imposed a moratorium on purchasing sites and building new churches. Despite a large rise in costs, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will take in some $20 million this year, just even with 1973. It may have to curtail activities...