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...problems in catching public attention stem from the sheer unpredictability of the economy itself. Reasoned debate on economic policy can be confusing even under the best of circumstances, yet it is hard to imagine conditions less suited to a sensible and informed discussion than the chaotic ones that currently prevail. In little more than eight months' time, the nation's topsy-turvy economy swung in sequence from runaway inflation and exploding interest rates to supertight money and soaring unemployment. Then interest rates plunged, money became easier and inflation declined. Now, just as abruptly, a quicksilver change is occurring...
Another movement that helped to unite disparate residents was the campaign against "demon rum." for years, the city had defeated by slim margins attempts to deny liquor licenses, usually on economic grounds. But as the number of Catholic immigrants swelled, it became almost inevitalbe that temperance would prevail; as two historians writing at the turn of the century said, "One public service of the church deserves special mention, namely its assistance to the cause of temperance and clean speech. Most of the churches have strong temperance organizations which have already rendered good service in the movement to control the liquor...
Other considerations may also be important. The prevailing job market occasionally is a factor, although family ties or lack of them usually prevail in a conflict of blood and money. For Boston, this means a heavy influx of electronics and computer specialists, as well as professionals in other high-technology fields. Certain other factors, such as the adequacy of local English language programs, also are considered...
...There's nothing chicken-hearted about Graham Allison," Jackson says, adding, "He's a tenacious, dogged apostle of points of view, but is mature enought to modify or correct his point of view when opposing arguments prevail." Schelling points out that the dean's position often shrouds his inner self. "A lot of people probably find him a little distant, harsh, overbearing, or thick-skinned. To do his job he has to be--most of us are not good at giving people bad news, but as dean he is fully responsible for all the hard decisions," Schelling says, evoking questions...
...Crimson should recapture the GBCs and state finals without great difficulty. At the Penn State tourney, however, the netwomen will run up against formidable foes, including a powerful Princeton side they will have to defeat in the spring in order to prevail in the Ivies...