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...decade's plans still unfulfilled, a Second Development Decade was decreed, and the growth target upped to 6%. As of 1973, however, only a few of the LDCs, most of them oil exporters, had achieved a 6% growth rate. The rest, with a total population of 1.5 billion, kept a meager 2.8% ahead of the population increase...
Before Bok, at least, if you had asked a Harvard savant about who ran the place, he would tell you the faculty did--they were, you see, this group of brilliant, quarrelsome, egomaniacal men, primarily interested in advancing knowledge, who somewhat incidentally kept Harvard going as well. It was an appealing theory because it implied that as long as there were brains here the place would run itself. Now, though, the theory has faded a little. Everybody knows the faculty members think they run the place--but the administrators really...
...independent publicity campaign"). Now representing the U.S. at a United Nations conference on human rights in Geneva, Carter is scheduled to return to Dar es Salaam in mid-September. After the flap dies down, he probably will be offered a distinctly unprestigious, perhaps nondiplomatic job where he will be kept out of trouble...
...single-sex schools, as they did in the early 1970s. But many feel that their schools have a vital role to play in helping women achieve the self-confidence to push for equality in the outside world. As the Wellesley News has put it: "As long as women are kept off boards of trustees, out of jobs and in hot pants, the world needs a Wellesley College...
...donations in the future. It also bared many secrets. In June the company submitted a 539-page report, prepared by a special committee of the board, containing exhaustive information on how Ashland executives had managed to divert corporate assets into an $800,000 U.S. political slush fund that was kept hidden in a safe. The report also indicated that from 1967 to 1972 a CIA operative was on Ashland's payroll, and that the CIA reimbursed the company for part of his salary...