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...students of Harvard is that small acts of daring are, at times like this, futile. When he tells us that we are "naive" and "must all be linked in indirect and innumerable ways to the wrongs of the world--through the goods we buy, the taxes we pay, the services we use, the investments we make," he is teaching us to have what Lawrence Goodwyn, professor of history at Duke, called "grace in the face of corruption." Bok has told us that there must be an unavoidable conflict between what we believe and what we do. At the deepest level...
Researchers at the bureau have access to a larger data base and a small databank service from Data Resources Institute (DRI), a publicly-held forecasting firm where Eckstein works half time for half pay. DRI provides the services free as a professional courtesy to economists solving large systems of complicated equations or developing simulation models...
...more appropriate admonition. In April the Class of '83 received its elegant invitations to attend Harvard and those who accepted took on a financial burden that soon will total at least $40,000. If present trends continue, more than half Harvard's students will not be able to pay the full amount and will receive some form of aid. Harvard has continued to marshal its considerable internal resources to allow all qualified students to attend the University. These days, however, Harvard is increasingly looking to the federal government to reduce the importance of money in determining the company of educated...
...await higher prices, the overall scarcity of oil is real, absolute and ultimately irreversible. The U.S., with 28.6% of the industrial West's population, accounts for 70% of its daily consumption of crude oil. Even with U.S. gas prices going up toward $1 a gallon, Americans are still paying unusually low prices; Europeans for years have been paying two or three times as much for gas as Americans. The price in France was $2.44 a gallon last week. But Americans go on printing more money and descending deeper into trade deficits to pay for their energy habit...
...raised about the nuclear power industry by the Three Mile Island accident only reinforce that logic. Yet Americans have not sifted through the questions of their priorities. They want energy without risk. They may be a long time in settling the question of what price they are willing to pay for their power. Americans historically have believed that they can have it both ways - indeed, every way. Their success was erected upon a profligate exuberance...