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...qualify as think tanks. Approximately 75 of these are attached to the Federal government by annual contract. Created mostly by the executive branch, they include RAND and NASA's Bellcomm Inc. The Stanford Research Institute and the Hudson Institute are two of 200 leading independent or university-affiliated nonprofit institutions devoted broadly to the natural and social sciences. About 300 profit-making firms consult, study, conduct surveys, make recommendations, perform applied research and, generally think for a fee. These teams of "brains" include General Electric's TEMPO group and Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge. Finally, there is a handful...
...sudden dependence on the intellectuals who band together, whether in a nonprofit or profit-making fashion, into groups whose sole products are paper reports? The answer lies within the past several decades. During and since FDR's presidency, the United States has witnessed revolutionary changes in its position in the world and in the operations of its governing system. Science and technology have exploded and placed instruments of vast destructive power in the hands of rulers and enormously increased the complexity of the policy process...
...electric-power plants are a major source of air pollution: 50% of the sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere, 20% of the nitrogen oxides, 20% of the soot and ash. Can technology reduce this pollution? Yes, according to a new study by the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities, a nonprofit organization that reports to concerned investors (churches, universities, foundations) on subjects involving corporate responsibility. But many utilities have been slow to install proven and existing equipment, the study says, or to develop alternative power sources...
...contributions by corporations are in fact illegal-the letter all but assures that contributions to the convention can be written off under a new federal law effective April 7. In convoluted legalese, Keeney explains that to be deductible as a business expense the contribution must be made to a nonprofit organization and its basic intent must be to stimulate business. "The fact that the convention is political in nature," says the letter, "would not preclude the contribution being made for the primary purpose of bringing the political convention to the community with the reasonable expectation of financial return...
...about Phase II, the post-freeze part of President Nixon's anti-inflation program. Housewives can invariably cite vexing increases in food prices, especially in produce and meat. Scarcely a week goes by that the Price Commission does not make some exemptions; last week, for example, it exempted nonprofit private schools from adhering to the guidelines for tuition and room-and-board charges. There are no effective limits on many other costs, including local taxes, used-car prices and utility rates. Says a construction worker in New York City, where since Jan. 1 telephone rates have gone...