Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear not, Feldstein doesn't intend to actually require students to take the course. No, my fellow rationally self-interested actors, that would result in less-than-optimal utility. The T.F. said that Feldstein is seeking suggestions on attracting people to Ec 10 of their own volition--with market incentives, as it were...
...their editorial, the doctors warned, "If HIV-1 infection continues to penetrate the poor and less advantaged populations of Latin America and the Caribbean, there is the potential for a massive epidemic in the Americas that may parallel the situation in Africa, where many cases remain unrecognized and unreported...
...last year's sit-in at the office of Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49, campus activism at Harvard usually takes the form of unglamorous, nuts-and-bolts work, be it in the union office or homeless shelter. But who can say that these types of activism are any less valid or socially productive than shutting down the University...
When asked how comfortable they felt participating in class discussions, most women Government concentrators said that they were comfortable in class discussions, but about one-quarter said that they felt uncomfortable. Compared to either men Government concentrators or women non-Government social science concentrators, women in Government are less likely to claim that they feel comfortable in class discussions in their concentration...
...Elektrosila's production, the factory's managers have extraordinary freedom to plan, manufacture and sell the rest of the plant's output as they see fit (total annual production value: 162 million rubles, or $260 million at the official Soviet conversion rate). Elektrosila has boosted its foreign sales from less than 15% of its production a few years ago to about one-fourth of its current output. "We are now the masters of our own castle," says Valentina Murinas, 50, the factory's chief economist. Elektrosila's new spirit of enterprise extends to its rank-and-file workers...