Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very difficult choice because I love Harvard, and I'm particularly saddened to leave Dudley House," Mayer added...
...Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition and master of Dudley House, will be named the tenth president of Tufts University today, marking the end of a nine-month search in which nearly 400 candidates were considered...
...accepted the offer because I like Tufts, and because it's big enough, but not too big, so that I can try some innovative things," Mayer said yesterday...
...Martin Mayer's Today and Tomorrow in America is harder and more brisk, crackling with intelligence and a certain contempt for what he sees as the stupidities of American public policy. Ideologically, his book will probably be read by some as a callous, you-can't-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-eggs dia tribe against social planners, academics in public life and environmentalists. Among his dicta: "Adjustments that take the reward structure too far out of line with contributions produce economic decay . . . An entirely disproportionate share of medical attention goes to the chronic, hopeless ills of the aged...
...Mayer, free-lance social critic and author of The Bankers and Madison Avenue, U.S.A., has a shrewd eye for the absurdities of government and other bureaucracies. In his view, lawyers and academics, starting in the 1960s, have fallen into the habit of legislating or planning outcomes in defiance of the actual world: "Nondiscrimination became equal opportunity became affirmative action became goals became quotas became equality of outcomes." He does not say at which link he would have interrupted the chain. Mayer does argue that government's tasks are to "harness greed," to lay a deft hand on the economic...