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From this position of overwhelming national strength, Merrill Lynch has helped change the ways that Americans spend, save and invest their money. No longer content to be merely the top trader in stocks and bonds, the firm is gearing up to challenge such venerable Main Street denizens as bankers, real estate brokers and insurance agents. Says Chairman Roger E. Birk: "We want to service as much of a person's financial needs...
...product of this change is a federal budget exquisitely tailored to the current agenda of the American right. The government is to be forced off the backs of the people, through reductions in social services, safety regulations and income assistance, leaving private enterprise free to invest and expand in ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
This procedure, many faculty agree, helps preserve the University's reputation for appointing candidates with the most prominent reputations in their fields--and all agree that professors take seriously the task of choosing future colleagues in whom the University may invest as much as $1.5 million over time. But, say some, the process allows such broad discretion at so many stages of the tenure process that the system may lend itself to gender or race discriminations. Others argue that Harvard's reputation-heavy criteria effectively mandate the selection of older professors--and thus implicitly discriminate against qualified younger pools, where...
Since the formation of a professional corporation to manage Harvard's portfolio nearly a decade ago, University Treasurer George Putnam '49 may no longer make the day-to-day decisions about how to invest every Harvard dollar. But the soft-spoken unobtrusive businessman continues to be the key influence on university investment policy...
Claiming that the present investment policy is too "restrictive." Putnam urged repeatedly that the character of the loan be taken into account, and the policy revised to allow the University to invest in banks that loan money to South Africa for "humanitarian" purposes...