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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, said yesterday raising bank interest rates to control inflation are "one of the major economic mistakes of our time...
Galbraith, who was in the Northwest to address a Washington State Bar Association convention, said higher borrowing costs do not affect the major causes of inflation--large corporations and unions...
...SASC's major campaign this fall, its members emphasize, will be a canvassing drive for a city referendum calling on Cambridge to divest of its holding in banks operating in South Africa. Committee members will encourage students to register for the vote this week and will canvass on behalf of the referendum right up until the local elections in November. If Cambridge approves the referendum, it will join Berkeley, Cal., which voted last spring to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to South Africa...
Women's tennis at Harvard joined the major leagues of college competition in 1978, and the move did not come without its share of trauma...
...Harvard Police Association, representing the 43 uniformed officers, successfully used the all-time low police morale as a major bargaining chip in their prolonged contract talks. This year promises to be different; the changes once viewed as the machinations of one police chief are now firmly embeded institutional realities, morale is better, a new police chief has ushered in many of the extralegal union demands made three years ago. And with a full-fledged recession in gear and spiraling inflation, this is simply not a good year for extracting more than 7 per cent wage hikes and better benefits...