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Some professors and administrators speculatedthat the logical choice for a new Harvardpresident is normally the dean of the Faculty. Butsince Spence is leaving for Stanford, theselection was hard to predict, they said...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: BOK TO RESIGN | 5/29/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard, about one million dollars per year. That's how much money some experts predict the University will make in royalties from its new licensing program...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Making a Profit on the Harvard Name | 5/23/1990 | See Source »

...have no idea. It's too complicated to predict because both extreme alternate scenarios are perfectly reasonable, namely complete self-immolation and destruction on the one hand, and overcoming of issues and decent lives for all people on the other. Nobody knows, despite the fact that there are a certain number of people who are willing to appear as pundits on television and proclaim the nature of the future. They don't know any more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN JAY GOULD: Evolution, Extinction And the Movies | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...there a solution to alien-smuggling that won't bleed taxpayers? Only one: Let more aliens in. Illegals now make up as much as 6% of the U.S. work force. Some immigration experts, most notably Julian Simon, a professor of business at the University of Maryland, predict that as the baby boomers age and the birthrate falls, the labor market will tighten and "employers will cry out for workers." The Kennedy-Simpson bill being considered by the House sets an annual "flexible" cap of about 630,000 legal immigrants per year, far less than the U.S. economy could absorb. Moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...have ruled for 69 years, enjoy access to state money, media and organizational apparatus. To offset those advantages, six opposition parties and groups have agreed to field common candidates in the elections. Even if Mongolia's first democratic exercise is fair, local and foreign observers in Ulan Bator predict that the Communists will win by a comfortable margin. Still, it would seem that the days of absolute rule are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mongolia Asia's Gentle Rebel | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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