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Right now it is a no-win situation, where the interested educators lose out as much as school systems. Student aid is merely one of several financial concerns at the Ed School: faculty salaries and building repairs loom large. Moreover, all the school's new programs need to be funded since the budget is just barely adequate to pay for its current expenses. Led by Dean Graham and Corporation member Hugh Calkins '54, Ed School officials have begun approaching private corporations asking them to give five-year grants to the school. With federal support of education dwindling, the Ed School...
Last week, just before the bull market's first birthday, Citibank threatened to spoil the party. It raised its prime rate from 10½% to 11%. Other banks followed, and stock prices sank as they almost always do when higher interest rates loom. By week's end they had begun a modest rebound, but investors remained nervous. Even so, nothing could change the fact that it had been quite a ride-and, despite the inevitable "corrections," it might have a lot more mileage...
...government is concerned, those things which Meselson et. al. can't explain loom larger than the bee theory itself. Their scientists have acknowledged that bees may be involved with the story--perhaps pollen is being used as a carrier for toxins, one has speculated to Science. But in general, the samples of leaves and rocks carry toxins in levels rot naturally found in Asia, the refugee reports, the Soviet gas mask--along with intelligence reports--have convinced the State Department and some highly reputable scientists that the Soviets are up to mischief...
...have been lagging for more than two years and now are precisely what is needed for solid business growth. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York City economic consultant and unofficial adviser to President Reagan: "If the President and Congress agreed on a credible plan to cut the deficits that loom for the next ten years, the effect would be nothing short of spectacular. It would mean a major economic expansion, which would probably pro-feed at a highly noninflationary pace...
...past, but many experts believe it has become more pervasive. "We live in a world of uncertainties," says Harvard's Benson, "everything from the nuclear threat to job insecurity to the near assassination of the President to the lacing of medicines with poisons." Through television, these problems loom up under our very noses, and yet, says Psychologist Kenneth Dychtwald of Berkeley, Calif., the proximity only frustrates us: "We can't fight back with those people...