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...manufacturer had been losing ground to Kellogg and General Mills, the industry leaders in the $7.5 billion cold-cereal business, as well as to store brands. If--and it's a big if--grocers pass along the full savings, the price of a 20-oz. box of Post Premium Raisin Bran would fall from $4.13 to $2.99; overall, the reductions would average about...
...time, Mansfield's conclusion that Harvard has bowed to "the ascendancy of self-esteem" (what his comrade-in-arms Allan Bloom once diagnosed as the "closing of the American mind"), overstates the extent to which diversity has forced Harvard to compromise its commitment to excellence. Even while placing a premium on diversity, Harvard's admissions standards remain the most competitive in the nation--for all of its students...
...Says he: "This isn't a shoemaking country. It's a high-tech one. There aren't a lot of Americans interested in sewing shoes together." Stollenwerk has survived by paying his 450 employees in Port Washington, Wisconsin, high wages of $12 to $15 an hour and turning out premium-quality shoes...
Unfortunately, it won't work. Or if it does work, it will produce more Big Government than its sponsors acknowledge. Forcing the currently insured to pool their costs with those now rejected as too expensive will raise premium costs. Senator Kassebaum says 3%; the insurance lobby says, in some cases, up to 30%. As the price goes up, some healthy people will drop their insurance, raising average costs in the remaining pool even further, leading more people to drop out, and so on. More people than now, not fewer, could end up uninsured...
...many students shy away from public service. In addition, the high visibility and persuasiveness of businesses which engage in the on-campus recruiting process, Curtis said, sways many students at schools like Harvard toward the private sector. While consulting, investing banking, and other types of firms have put a premium on aggressively pursuing the brightest emerging minds from the nation's top colleges, the public sector has not paralleled this effort...