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...would you describe the University's financial situation at present, and can you predict where cutbacks in spending, if any, will come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Interview With President Bok Or (Gulp), How to Run Harvard | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...neighbors." Potentially, Serrano v. Priest is the most far-reaching court ruling on schooling since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which held that separate public educational facilities were inherently unequal. The case will probably be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court-with consequences that no one can predict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dividing the Cake | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...what the rate of increase is today. In recent years, Peking has encouraged late marriages, use of birth-control pills, sterilization and abortion. "Projections of future populations are admittedly fictions," says one of the more moderate prophets, Philip Hauser of the University of Chicago. "No one can actually predict future population, and anyone who claims he can is either a fool or a charlatan . . . The fact that man is able to consider [the] implications is one reason why the projected numbers will never be reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: POPULATION EXPLOSION: IS MAN REALLY DOOMED? | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...Spater and Kirk Kerkorian, the Western board chairman, more on the grounds of convenience than necessity or public interest. Spater contended, however, that the merger would generate $50 million in new annual profits-$22 million in increased revenues and $28 million in cost savings. Yet some CAB economists predict a $20 million burden of cost increases on the merged carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Diverging on Merging | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...like it here," he says. "I can live at my own pace. I'll be lobstering again pretty soon." So the school is safe. Enrollment may even reach 16 this September. The men keep working every evening on two more empty homes. When school opens this fall, they predict that Johanna von Tiling will have children from two or three more families to teach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Saving an Island School | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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