Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University and one of the authors of Harvard's amicus brief, "Until ten years ago, diversity at Harvard simply meant an all-white student body." The change the concept of diversity has undergone since then is the product of "large forces released in our society in the late '60s," Steiner says, and he admits there is nothing down on paper to prevent Harvard from returning to its earlier concept of diversity...
...ability to do better, and if the actors want to stay in their slightly odd home, continuing to break the tradition of boys-will-be-girls fun, they'd better come up with something more inspiring next time out. The subject may, indeed, have been roses, but the product was boring...
...Federal, state and local taxes are still in the vicinity of 30% of the gross national product in this country," says Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He adds, "Taxes in most European countries run up to 35% and 45%. The only major country that's below us is Japan." As Heller sees it, the California revolt reflects local circumstances, including California's booming real estate market and Governor Jerry Brown's delay in promoting tax reductions. Recalls Heller: "Several of us economists were invited to Sacramento...
...last week Omni-Horizon faced some of the most serious safety charges ever hurled at an American car. Consumers Union, the influential nonprofit, product-testing group, announced that four Omni-Horizons it examined had failed two tests for stability and handling at expressway speeds (about 50 m.p.h.). The organization produced a 43-second film, rerun on several TV news programs, showing the Omni-Horizon careening terrifyingly. Consumers Union's conclusion: the average person might not have the skill to handle the car in a driving emergency. In the July issue of its magazine, Consumer Reports, C.U. will rate...
After a long, dark stretch of lagging growth and raging prices, the fabled Japanese economy is at last on the road to recovery. Production, discounted for inflation, rose 2.4% in the first quarter, or at an annual rate of 9.8%. That pace is expected to slow considerably later in the year. Still, Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda now insists that the government's ambitious 7% growth goal for this year "appears within reach." At the same time, the rate of inflation has fallen from a 1974 high of 21% to a manageable 4%. Yet simultaneously, there is a slowly dawning...