Word: growth
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LAST month Harvard's Gay and Lesbian Students' Association divided into separate groups for men and women. The change is indicative of the vast growth of the campus gay population and debate on gay issues. This fall twice as many gay students participated in gay groups than in previous years...
...more importantly, it expresses an understanding that American foreign policy must be readjusted to facilitate that goal. America must refuse to pay for an occupation which not only frustrates hopes of Palestinian nationalism, but also erodes Israeli democracy and encourages the growth of racism. For as long as Israel continues to deny fundamental rights to the non-Jewish population of the West Bank and Gaza, Americans cannot in good conscience claim that Israel is a democracy. Nor can we sit silently and continue to financially enable the human rights violations that America has so proudly attempted to eradicate the world...
...founded a bipartisan group that warned of the mounting U.S. budget deficit. Still one of the most powerful men on Wall Street, Peterson now heads the Blackstone Group, a smaller investment house specializing in corporate takeovers and leveraged buyouts. His new book, On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future, written with Neil Howe, continues his assault on the economic policies of his own party. senior editor Walter Isaacson and senior correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer interviewed Peterson last week in his office on New York City's Park Avenue...
Allais developed theories on many economic relationships, including the connection of interest rates, growth and investment. But most influential were his formulas that showed how a monopoly could set prices for such products as coal or electricity at a level that would be best for society...
...money they have raised in California, for instance, to deploy nearly 75,000 precinct workers to greet voters at the polls on Election Day. In the past, candidates had to dip into their own campaign funds to pay for polls or to get out the vote, but with the growth in soft money, politicians can devote their election resources to more vital expenses, including staff salaries and TV spots...