Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These two notions of Harvard parallel the political divide that defines the debate over the nation's most bitterly contested social issues. Liberals tend to be structuralists, arguing, for instance, that welfare is needed because macro-economic forces create little demand for low-skilled workers. Conservatives, by contrast, are usually individualists, arguing, for instance, that the responsibility for paying for the poor falls not on the state, but on the poor themselves, who are responsible for finding their own job in a free market system...
...some students feel that HLS, which already employs some of the nation's sharpest minds, is wasting its money by outsourcing its planning...
...long run, though, the University will also have to address a more fundamental problem with its tenure process. The lack of regard for students' concerns has become painfully apparent. Like most of the rest of the nation's colleges and universities, Harvard gives disproportionate weight to research experience in making its tenure decisions...
...This year, as Harvard and the nation have witnessed a resurgence of campus activism, comparisons with earlier protestors have intensified. To some, the 1960s are the example today's student activists should strive to follow, but to others, they are an irrelevant and unfair standard, a 30-year-old albatross around the necks of today's student activists...
...recent article in The Nation about the resurgent student movement began by noting that a meeting of campus organizers at Stanford bore "no resemblance to the old and gritty auto workers' summer camp at Port Huron, Michigan, where SDS was formed...