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...W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American research offers one of the few hopes for easing the myriad problems the University has with the hiring and recruitment of black people and the teaching of Afro-American Studies. If set up properly, the institute will attract top-quality black graduate students and professors, alleviating a shortage at Harvard that is now shameful. It will establish Harvard as a leader in the field of Afro-American Studies and strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department with an excellent research facility...
...incorrect and unfair. Harvard has no stockholders, makes no profit, pays no dividends. Instead, the University has a limited income which it must divide between the maintenance of its plant, the development of new facilities (housing, library, and recreational), the funding of various academic programs, food and a myriad of other expenditures. All the money gets spent; if not this then next year; if not on one program, then on another. When fees are increased or expenditures curtailed, nobody makes money because of it. The University as a whole is the sole beneficiary of Harvard's financial policy...
...purchases of U.S. stocks fell because of the bear market. But, worst of all, the Commerce Department's statistics underscored the fact that the nation's bill for petroleum imports soared by $18 billion last year. This more than offset exports of soybeans, jet planes computers and myriad other products' and led to a merchandise trade deficit of $5.88 billion...
...distinction of operating the nation's largest network of food stores-its last claim to its old glory. The company was displaced as the industry's sales leader by Safeway Stores in 1973. Before A. & P. can begin its closeout, it must negotiate its way out of myriad store leases and find a way to mollify unions representing the estimated 30,000 workers whose jobs will be threatened. The stores most likely to be shuttered are small ones in the big cities of the East and Midwest...
...over the U.S., the pangs of recession and inflation are touching the lives of Americans in myriad ways, and people are trying to cope with a variety of devices. Examples...