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...Doms, Mark E., and J. Bradford Jensen (1998). "Productivity, Skill, and Wage Effects of Multinational Corporations in the United States," in D. Woodward and D. Nigh, eds., Foreign Ownership and the Consequences of Direct Investment in the United States: Beyond Us and Them. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books...
...rest of the semester, however, was not as productive. Having faced several meetings in recent years—including November’s infamous debate—in which the Faculty failed to meet quorum, the Faculty put a proposal to lower quorum from one-sixth to one-eighth on the agenda for the next meeting. Perhaps out of shock at having accomplished something during the February meeting, or maybe out of fear that the meeting would not reach quorum itself, the Faculty decided to cancel their March meeting, putting off their discussion of the quorum question until April?...
...Student Council at its weekly meetings convinces the observer that these talkative politicians have little discernible reason for continuing to exist and that the abolition of the Council would be a good thing. Its members come together on the second floor of PBH, wait forty-five minutes until a quorum is gathered, and discuss lunches with the Dean, the formation of the Motorscooter Club, and whether or not a certain member should be allowed to change his vote. Frequently, Council members themselves realize that they have little purpose, and ask agonizingly, “are we just the errand boys...
...learned from the happenings of the past year, it is this: Today’s world is a complex sociopolitical system, one that resists speculation from the narrow or clouded lens. From Cambridge in particular, where much of the high drama consists in interdepartmental squabbles and where an unmet quorum can constitute the positive derailment of progress, international crises can present themselves as geopolitical Gordian knots: impossible to disentangle entirely and inclined only to tighten further after the overzealous jerk of careless hands...
...contrast, during the Student Assembly’s final semester the previous spring, only a little over half of the assembly’s 90 seats were filled. Attendance was so low at the organization’s last meeting in April that attendees did not meet the quorum necessary for the government to disband itself...