Word: granting
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...bureau say both Harvard and the NBER have benefitted from their close relationship. The bureau fosters a community spirit, provides an efficient and effective environment for study, as well as office space, resources and access to other economists. In addition, some say it may be easier to get grant money through the NBER than through an individual application. The bureau, in turn, has at its disposal young and outstanding economists. "Harvard has been very good in facilitating our operation," McLure says...
William R. Grant, education writer for the Detroit Free Press, and Michael J. Kirk, public affairs director for Seattle television station KCTS will also spend next year at Harvard, as will Lynda M. McDonnel, a business and labor reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, and Judith Nichol, Maryland editor of the Washington Post...
...bumbled its management of work-study funds, and women in severe financial straits watched relatively well-off Harvard men take the work-study jobs. Radcliffe eventually negotiated a transfer of work-study funds from Harvard to Radcliffe coffers without jeopardizing the school's independent status, supposedly crucial for other grant eligibility. But some undergraduate women knew only that they could not get work study money because they were women...
...titled "A Taxpayer's Prayer": "O mighty Internal Revenue, who turneth the labor of man to ashes, we thank thee for the multitude of thy forms which thou has set before us and for the infinite confusion of thy commandments which multiplieth the fortunes of lawyer and accountant alike ... Grant that this sacrifice not be found insufficient unto thy auditor...
...interaction between leaders and led, between the people's mood and the politician's watchful calculation of it. The two intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...