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...intensely heated. "We've looked at the issue of equity over the years, and we've been stymied,'' says Bob Early, principal of the Taylor Ranch School in Venice, Florida, which raises about $20,000 annually. "This is a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Parents want their efforts to benefit their kids, and any program to redistribute funds is not at all popular...
...system fall into this trap? Primarily, says Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman, because it was "designed for a world that no longer exists." In 1935--or even in January 1940, when the first checks were mailed--the U.S. was a much smaller, poorer country, still ravaged by the Great Depression that struck with special savagery at the old. Those people lucky enough to have jobs were overwhelmingly male. Even more important, the world had yet to hear of organ transplants and the manifold other wonders of modern medicine. Once they were available, along with the better nutrition and sanitation that...
...dean will have to consider a question that has in the past put HBS at odds with smaller schools at the University. Should HBS, with its wealthy alumni network, raise funds for poorer schools at the University as well? Harvard schools have traditionally relied on the maxim, "every tub on its own bottom." President Rudenstine has asked that University schools work closer together for the multi-million dollar capital campaign...
Fifteen hundred miles south, in the Sierra Negra, lies a poorer and more conservative Mexico. Here along the dry river beds suspicion of Uncle Sam remains pronounced. ``How did Mexico fall so quickly?'' asks Serafin Perez Nava, mayor of San JoseTetla (pop. 800). ``Under Salinas we thought we had prestige, but it washed away like a sand castle. Now they are mortgaging our country. What happens later if we can't pay our debts? Will the U.S. then ask for part of our territory?'' Carlos Garcia Moreno teaches 17 children in a one-room schoolhouse. His $70-a-week salary...
...poorer countries, burdens of debt and structural adjustments fall heavily on women, Heyzer said. Structural adjustments which are often a condition for international loans or debt-restructuring usually entail the reduction of food subsidies, health services and formalized work for women, she said...