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...taxable gift--it costs him only 30 cents. With the tax cut, the same person will keep 50 cents for every dollar earned, thus the cost of giving a dollar to Harvard rises from 30 to 50 cents. Alan J. Auerbach, assistant professor of Economics and an expert on tax policy, notes that "charitable givers are very sensitive to the tax price, or cost, of giving, and changes should have fairly important results for universities...
Richard E. Pipes, Baird Professor of History. A specialist in pre-revolutionary Russia, Pipes now is the National Security Council's chief Soviet expert. Hawkish on defense issues, Pipes is a bitter enemy of the Soviets, whom he considers dangerous expansionists and implacable foes of the United States. Pipes got himself into hot water last March when he told an interviewer that detente was dead and that a war between the superpowers was inevitable if the Soviet Union didn't peacefully change its system. The White House and State Department quickly slapped his wrists, and there hasn't been...
...perennial Soviet agricultural mismanagement. Incentives to collective farmers to increase production still appear to be lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert: "Collective-farm drivers just stop their trucks along the road somewhere and empty a pile of grain on the ground. Then they come back to collect it to feed their own livestock or to sell privately." So pervasive is the practice in major grain-growing areas of the Ukraine that...
Many economists are starting to believe that the dollar has become overvalued and will soon begin to slip. Rimmer de Vries, an international monetary expert at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., predicts that the current account, which measures the net international flow of goods and services to and from the U.S., will swing from a $10 billion surplus this year to a $5 billion deficit in 1982. That deficit will in turn drive down the value of the dollar, perhaps by as much...
...about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself, 'How long can I do this?' " concedes Harry Burke, a Los Angeles controller. Admits a supervisor in Oakland: "It's just not realistic to think this can go on for two years." Safety Expert John Galipault, who heads Ohio's nonprofit Air Safety Institute, takes a cataclysmic view of how long the current system will last: "Until there's a midair collision...