Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the relentless pace of technogical advances, a final area of exploration will no doubt be issues relating to computers. The last year alone has seen a tremendous surge in the computer facilities here, as well as a proliferation of opportunities for students to obtain cut-rate hardware from companies eager to cultivate the potentially lucrative Harvard market. Harvard is trying, slowly, to come to grips with a technology that has thus far outstripped educators' abilities to capitalize on it fully...
Massive fund drives on the order of the Campaign's often pick up the pace near their end, as alumni become more likely to chip in big bucks to meet a stated goal. And development officials here are hopeful that a newly announced matching scheme by 27 wealthy alumni and Harvard friends will ease the Campaign down the home stretch. Under the plan, they will give Harvard one dollar for every two dollars in new or increased contributions received--up to $25 million worth...
While faculty committee members seem content with the pace of change, students who only spend four years at Harvard are somewhat more impatient. Toba E. Spitzer '85, a student member of the Faculty Committee on Women's Studies, this year said it was not "an activist body" and that the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) started a student committee of women's studies this year in response...
...economists forecast, to moderate growth. The blistering 8.8% rate of rise in the gross national product in the first quarter was something of a fluke, caused in part by a rapid buildup of inventories. By the fourth quarter, G.N.P. growth is expected to slow to a more sustainable 3.5% pace...
...from 1977 to 1982, U.S. manufacturing productivity grew by just .6%, while in West Germany the increase was 2.1%, in France 3.0% and in Japan 3.4%. Last year, however, the U.S. rate increased by 2.8%. In the first quarter of this year it was up at an annual pace of 3.2%. John W. Kendrick, a professor at George Washington University and a guest at last week's TIME Board of Economists meeting, believes that the U.S. is now "going back to the higher productivity trend we saw between 1948 and 1973." One of the leading American experts...