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Economic self-interest also should prompt the advanced nations to alleviate Third World poverty. It is simply not reasonable to think that the industrialized world can maintain, let alone expand, its economies in a kind of closed circle. It must bring in more and more of the rest of the globe, not only as suppliers of raw materials, but also as trading partners...
...points on an 800 scale--and by January had sent corrected scores to the test-takers as well as the schools. Amy Meyer, associate director of admissions to Harvard Business School's masters program, says that because the error was so small, and because the Business School received prompt notification about it, the effect on admissions was minimal. "There was a group of a little over 100 people on whom we had already made a decision, but when we discovered the error, we reviewed all those applicants," Meyer says adding, "We did not change any decisions. GMATs count for approximately...
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...concrete questions like those involved in the curriculum reform--questions that Rosovsky does not expect he will be able to solve simply with a new version of his "yellow pages" report on undergraduate education, or by appointing task forces to report back to him. Rather, he hopes to prompt a new round of Faculty meetings that will debate the philosophy of graduate education, with an eye toward applying that philosophy to changing attitudes and trends. And he hopes to come up with some answers--for "the graduate school is absolutely vital to the quality of the Faculty." If the Faculty...
...President is also faulted for trying to solve problems by drafting overly "comprehensive" programs and handing them to Congress for prompt approval. Welfare reform, civil service reform, tax reform were all announced with fanfare but have not moved far toward adoption. Congress is hardly blameless since it is more rebellious and disorganized than ever, and occasionally inclined to show the newcomer in the White House that he is not the boss. Yet Carter has persisted in policies that have not won sufficient support for passage. His energy legislation was too hastily assembled without consulting enough relevant groups. It placed...