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...dedication to understanding and questioning led her into a new field of research in the mid-1980s. Benhabib is now a leading scholar of feminist political and social theory and was prominent in the debates surrounding Professor of Education Carol Gilligan's "In a Different Voice...
...Harvard administrators can't really blameMeyer for all the trouble, either, since he onlyassumed his post in September 1990 (hispredecessor, HMC founder Walter M. Cabot '55,reportedly was eased out the door after returnsdeclined steadily since the mid-1980s...
Then, the University was heavily invested insafe, but uninspiring domestic bonds, andunderweighted in foreign stocks, which took off inthe mid-1980s. Within nine months, Meyer reversedthat policy. By the close of fiscal 1991,Harvard's stake in U.S. bonds had been pared downby more than $500 million from a high of $1.3billion. Meanwhile, foreign stock holdings swelledby nearly $600 million, to $861 million...
Wall Street firms have also cherry-picked some of the banks' best business. Merrill Lynch, for example, has been targeting smaller companies since the mid-1980s. Last year its business financial-services division had about 3,000 clients and $800 million in loan commitments...
...conglomerate as large as the Pentagon could hardly escape the restructuring that has been the watchword of corporate America for a decade. The end of the cold war has reduced the uniformed services from 2.1 million members in the mid-1980s to 1.7 million, heading down to 1.4 million or fewer. The defense budget will decline in real terms by more than 40% between 1985 and 1997. This downsizing leaves the U.S. with far more bases, support and repair facilities than it needs. But which ones to close? Even a relatively small base represents vital jobs and millions of dollars...