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...With inflation, cutbacks in government aid to higher education, and the rapid rise of tuition, it didn't seem prudent to take on a new building," he said...
...irony of the opposition to an honor code stems from the fact that, for the most part, ours is an assertive student body. We regularly protest, for instance, that we don't need a Core Curriculum to ensure that we depart after four years as well-rounded individuals. The rapid growth of student government in the form of the the Undergraduate Council, to take another example, and the multiplication of its functions surely represents one of the most salient features of undergraduate life in recent years while student representation on University committees increases annually. Sometimes this zeal for government spills...
...launch went well. The space shuttle Discovery lifted off with a jolt and rapid rat-a-tat-tatting blast, then some roll and yaw and another jolt. The solid-rocket boosters fell away, and the shuttle climbed up out of the atmosphere. Soon the mission commander and pilot saw the earth's curved horizon before them in the orbiter's front window. The crew, dead serious now in the early moments of the flight, proceeded in efficient monotones through checklists, opening and closing switches, scanning the warning lights on the cockpit panels, coordinating with mission control. Fourteen minutes into...
...Those rapid-fire developments were part of the background for this week's joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the South Korean capital of Seoul. The Reagan Administration's take-charge efforts are certain to dominate the four-day-long gathering of the two global financial institutions. Delegates from 149 countries will give the U.S. an early reading on how successful its strategies...
...Jobs becomes merely the latest in a long list of entrepreneurs who have been forced out of companies they founded. Michael Tushman, a professor at Columbia University's business school, estimates that only 10% of those who launch firms are able to survive the inevitable changes that come with rapid growth. Says Tushman: "The very characteristics that lead entrepreneurs to start companies--independence, innovation and a commitment to ideas--are the same ones that can cause their demise as managers. A mature firm cannot tolerate relentless turmoil or a tendency to dash off in all directions...