Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Okun has a different fear. Since the Federal Reserve has been unable to contain the growth of money supply by the usual method of moving funds in and out of the banking system, it is trying to hold down the money stock by pushing up borrowing costs. Since the start of 1977, the prime rate on bank loans to business has risen from 6¼% to 7¾% in November. Okun's fear is that the board will lift interest rates high enough to discourage borrowing and cause a recession in 1979. Says he: "The Federal Reserve...
...bottom line on all this, however, is that Harvard's recruiting method deals in a mature manner with boys that are not mature. When they look at Harvard what they see is what they get--no steaks, no hotel suites, no special treatment. When they look at other schools they are being sold. Once someone enrolls in a college, they are no longer special, the fancy dinners disappear, the hotel room is replaced by the athletic dormitory. For many who come to believe the stories of their own importance and choose the school by the dinner, this comes...
...York Academy of Sciences said in its citation, "This method is of such simplicity and power that the entire primary sequence of genes can now be easily worked...
...does PIRG wish to institute the check off rebate system and not the usual check off-if-you-want-to-donate method anyhow? Obviously, PIRG knows that there are many marginal patrons who would not be inclined to donate if a conventional approach were used. However, when confronted with the official Harvard bill and the implication that a donation is expected, many would submit to this taxation. I find this type of psychological manipulation and trickery most objectionable...
...economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans...But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing to pay. In any case, we suffer already, our children are often undernourished, and on a small scale (so far) we die at the whim of a policeman...