Word: paged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiscal 1979 budget. As a result, the Office of Management and Budget came up with its own-$3.9 billion -which was also rejected. Furious at the foulups. Carter told Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to whip the policy into shape. Within two months, he and Harris produced a ten-page outline that Carter liked. In a note to "Pat and Stu" the President gave his go-ahead. "My whole family will help," he added...
...that unemployment dropped to a three-year low of 6.1% in January. Last week they went so far as to urge President Carter to take some form of action. The basic, underlying rate of inflation has been stuck since mid-1975 at 6%, already an unacceptable figure. A 15-page memo circulating within the Administration warns that the base rate is about to accelerate. Can double-digit inflation be far behind...
Dean Henry Rosovsky started in 1974 a major review of Harvard's undergraduate course of study. The result was a 36-page proposal for a "core curriculum" that is now being debated by the faculty. Scrapping the amorphous general education categories, the proposal outlines specific course requirements in five precisely defined core areas. As it stands now, the proposal would require each graduate, whatever his major, to have completed...
...education as the volumes he held like a lover. ("I realized," he recalls of one liaison, "that in moments of desperation people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited affair in the book, and it makes every page shine with a wit and vigor that belie the author's 73 years. Further illuminations are provided by Raphael Soyer's nostalgic drawings and paintings, every one of which is a complement to the text and a compliment to the reader...
...bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea how to get rid of the box. But until that terminus he offers the intriguing notion of a society without aerials, reruns or Howard Cosell...