Word: pacing
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Jackson said that with Tarver and Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, directing the MPA program, the program should have sufficient resources to keep pace with the K-School's Master of Public Policy program. Over the past decade it had not been expanding as rapidly as the MPP, he added...
...regular curriculum. After a Ford Foundation-funded study of the first five years of the program, the Divinity faculty this year voted overwhelmingly to continue the program for eight years--a resounding show of confidence. But the study of the program turned up one disappointment: the expectations for the pace of change in the regular curriculum were too high. The associates did not succeed very well in their efforts to develop women's studies interests among regular faculty members. The associates have offered courses in Hindu goddesses, black female notions of Christ and the legal status of women under traditional...
After a semester of work by this Faculty committee and over a year of work by a planning committee--as well as student efforts to talk up women's studies--the pace of change has hardly accelerated. Harvard is starting almost from scratch with only a small group of devoted supporters of women's studies. Finding interested Faculty members and the money and research material they need is the challenge the committee faces next year. The committee also hopes to keep students on its side and not allow requests for a concentration to poison the minds of faculty members whose...
Oman has several of the same problems that were related to the downfall of the Shah of Iran: an absolute monarchy, a rapid pace of development, a large foreign military and industrial presence, and the potential for a troublesome insurgency. And oil. While hardly in the class of Saudi Arabia, Iraq or Iran, Oman does produce about 350,000 bbl. per day, with an income of $1.2 billion a year. It is the twelfth largest oil-producing nation in the world, and at its present rate has proven reserves for nearly half a century...
...falling. The index of leading indicators has dipped for three straight months. From March to April, industrial production dropped 1% and housing starts fell 2%. The nation's savings banks had a record net outflow of $1.1 billion last month. Since savings banks provide much mortgage money, the pace of new housing starts is likely to slow even further in the months ahead...