Word: outlook
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...Briggs Cage project and the renovation of the Stadium, which is scheduled to begin nest week, take place as planners enter the last phase of a building program which began after a 1975 Athletic Department study which encompassed three years of surveying Harvard's athletic outlook-recommended that a university that promise, athletics for all ought to construct facilities capable of serving all of its athletes...
...decision to cancel seems at best to have stemmed from undue financial caution towards building projects: at worst, it may have reflected a glaring lack of concern for the arts at Harvard. And it certainly suggests an irony in Bok's attitude towards the Fogg: that his supremely cautious outlook prompted him to act in a decidedly rash fashion...
...conventional wisdom. We're running an incredible experiment with these deficits." Conservative Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau for Economic Research, observed, "The Administration has put itself in an impossible position." Even Republican Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant and sometime adviser to Reagan, admitted that the outlook was "extraordinarily bleak...
...SUCCESS OF THE new outlook rests on a rejection of the simplistic belief that "bigness is badness," a notion that has haunted Americans since populists like William Jennings Bryan and woodrow Wilson fired anti-business sentiment in the early part of the century. Instead, the intellectual underpinnings of Baxter's policies recall the more sophisticated views of Teddy Roosevelt, who argued that the importance of the Northern Securities Case lay not in breaking up the size of the proposed corporation but in showing that "the most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before...
Although the voting at Cal State will boost the number of the 150,000 unionized faculty members in the U.S. by about 13%, the outlook for growth is not promising. Labor unions in general are in trouble, and higher education now seeks ways to give more classroom instruction for less money. A year ago, when the union question was fought out in the University of Minnesota system, two small campuses in Duluth and Waseca, where the faculty wanted a voice on promotion and tenure, voted to join...