Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regain economic momentum, says Oxford University Economist Michael Kaser, the Soviets will have to shift the planning emphasis from more factories and more workers to more efficient factories and more productivity per worker. Decentralizing the economy so that managers need not clear so many decisions with the sluggish Moscow bureaucracy will also be necessary. For the leaders of the rigid Soviet system, that kind of drastic reform will not be easy...
Saturday's dual meet with Yale will decide who from the two squads will travel to England this June to face a combined Oxford-Cambridge squad. McCurdy said his strategy in New Haven will be to win the meet first, and let individual matters take care of themselves. "We don't want to lose the team concept," he said...
What makes re-entry all the more difficult is that the Viet veteran has been stereotyped as angry, alienated, semiliterate and drug-prone. Some veterans feel that their experience in Viet Nam makes prospective employers wary. Says Bruns Grayson, who went on to Harvard and Oxford after five years in Viet Nam: "What I find offensive is the feeling that all Viet Nam vets are latent psychos or, like Jon Voight in Coming Home, sensitive and guilt-ridden. These are comic-book caricatures." Charles Figley, a Purdue University psychologist who wrote a study of his fellow Viet Nam veterans, agrees...