Word: processers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand the ramifications of Harvard's actions--they've got to get some power," he adds. "It's so frustrating--a phalanx of p.r. types blocks the way to the decision-makers," tenant organizer Sullivan adds. Almost everyone who's angry at Harvard seems to think something in the process of University decision-making is to blame for its problems with the city. "There are no individuals you can single out," says one city official. "The structure is such that it makes it hard (for Harvard) to move in any direction except its own selfish interest...
...answered that question with a high-minded contempt for the democratic process. "An institutional statement," he says, "may come about through the weight of faculty resolutions and student petitions that reflect the views of many persons with little time or special competence to judge the issues." But should moral judgments be made by specialists? As citizens of the University community do not the faculty and students have the right and the duty to help make those decisions...
Feldstein has developed a major project this year, a $1.5 million study on capital formation, and his presence is felt in the budgeting process and in determining the character of the bureau funds. "I think there has been more emphasis on economic theory rather than statistics (since Feldstein became president)," Rees comments. "He has areas he wants to stress and he invites people to join the bureau who are doing research in those areas." The New York Times, on May 20, 1979, suggested Feldstein is using the NBER as "his own private vehicle." But people inside the bureau...
...once again the office window has been cheated of its prey. A few hours earlier P.B. Sykes and his strange feet did not exist. Now they do, brought into being by a process as astonishing and mysterious as the sprouting of legs on tadpoles. In Sykes' case, it happened five years ago. It still happens, three times a week, inside the wondrous mind of Russell Wayne Baker...
Besides, in democratic process, there is a constant interaction between leaders and led, between the people's mood and the politician's watchful calculation of it. The two intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...