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...have been with some of these things, we escaped in pretty good shape," says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for research and the allied institutions. The backlog of grant applications is actually slightly up from last year at this time, he reports, and few professors anticipate immediate crises. "Sheer inertia (in the federal grant process) will tide us over for this year and perhaps the next; the danger will be in the future, when more cuts could overtake some of our programs," Leahy says...
...that inertia gives way to significant alterations, however, many Harvard professors could suffer, and some already are. James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology department, has the coming year's money in hand for the nationwide General Social Survey, but 1983 "is still very much up in the air," he says. The $300,000 to $400,000 Davis will need from the NSF to continue his study, considered one of the most important basic data sources in that field, would have to come from a division vulnerable to additional reductions. In general, research in the social sciences and in basic...
John Tremont, 52, an American-born painter living in France, flies to Los Angeles after learning of his mother's heart attack. He finds her in a serious but stable condition; his father worries him more. At age 72, Dad has sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings...
...drafted by two representatives of the tutors. I think the vast majority of tutors would agree that the interests of graduate students and undergraduates have been will-served by the revision. That a few old tutors may be unhappy about the deletion of a favorite topic is understandable, for inertia is a powerful force in human nature. But we all are subject at times to change and growth...
...enroil in accelerated summer courses that the university offered especially for them. the researchers attribute this unwillingness to the girls' not wanting to appear different from their friends. Also, many of the girls described the boys who would no doubt enroll in the courses as "little creeps". This inertia perhaps manifests itself later on in high school, where girls often decline to take more advanced math courses, such as those teaching calculus...