Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definitely don't want Communist participation in the government-definitely not. But we would like the Communist Party or the trade unions to commit themselves in some way to a joint program with the conventional parties to push through tax reforms, investment in the infrastructure, more employment, and so forth. I don't think we should panic about the Communists. Communist behavior depends to a great extent on what we do. If we panic, if industrialists get nervous and stop investment, if some people get out of the country, it makes the Communist position more authoritative; it gives...
...UDALL has argued for a more rapid expansion of money supply to keep interest rates low, Government action to cut unemployment and "effective price controls on key industries, such as steel, food, utilities and prescription drugs." Liberal Udall has tapped many sources for advice, including economists of the congressional Joint Economic Committee. But he especially respects the counsel of John Kenneth Galbraith, who has long contended that the concentration of economic power among the nation's major corporations is a prime source of inflation and argues for permanent price controls. To a considerable degree, though, Udall relies...
...adaptation to another society, I suffered several weeks of reverse culture shock. I no longer seemed able to function properly in my own culture. For a short while, my expectations of what people were going to do next and of what they expected of me were subtly out of joint. My colleagues seemed foreign to me, and I ventured to Harvard Square with trepidation. One place only seemed comfortable and familiar--the co-op house...
...selection of the Class of 1980--the first picked by a joint Harvard-Radcliffe admissions staff with a new "equal-access" admissions policy--has been a somewhat controversial process. Alumni groups have been firmly opposed to any decrease in the number of undergraduate men here...
...four-hour-long track meet marked the first time that Harvard and Radcliffe track teams have co-hosted a rival school. However, Kevin Barnes '76, manager of Harvard track, and Robert "Pappy" Hunt, the Radcliffe coach, both stressed that the two meets were held jointly for the "purpose of economy." Both agreed the schedules of the two teams prevent any more joint combined meets...