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Critics of the Reagan proposal, however, doubt that this would occur. They argue that consumers are more likely to spend the money provided by the tax cut, thus encouraging more demand in the economy and fueling inflation. Says Stanford University Economist Michael Boskin, one of the earliest supporters of supply-side economics: "The President's tax cut will simply not have a large impact on savings. The bulk of the effect will be to increase spending." Adds Democratic Economist Lester Thurow of M.I.T.: "The Reagan tax cut is simply not supply-side economics. Only about 6% of it would...
...shekels of silver was levied against the owner of any dog whose bite caused a freeman's death (the rate for slaves was 15 shekels). Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless they are inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease. There were no reported human deaths from rabies in the U.S. last year, thanks to prompt vaccination. But the Federal Center for Disease Control in Atlanta counted 6,405 animal cases in 1980, about twice as many as in the early 1970s and the highest figure...
...best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...
...Faculty's revolving door turned several times this week. Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History and currently senior Soviet specialist on the National Security Council, informed University officials that he will not return here until the 1982-83 academic year at the earliest. Pipes, on leave since the beginning of the semester, will lose tenure if he remains absent for more than two consecutive years... Harry R. Lewis '68, associate professor of Computer Science, will become the second McKay Professor of Computer Science in July. A junior faculty member here for seven years. Lewis will become the second tenured...
...tenure offer emerges from the process, Skocpol said she will "seriously consider" it but could not return until the 1982-83 school year at the earliest. She must decide on outside tenure offers before the ad hoc committee meets...