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...quiet demeanor certainly does not match his extraodinarily rapid and successful rise from scion of a rich Philadelphia family to president of Harvard, in 1971, at the young age of 40. Bok is the son of preeminent liberal Pennsylvania jurist, now an associate justice of the state supreme court, and the grandson of Edward W. Bok, the first editor of Ladies Home Journal...
...explanation is that most voters simply judged Reagan's policies to be working. Early in 1984, the nation was enjoy- ing its highest rate of economic growth in 34 years, its lowest inflation rate in twelve years and a rapid drop in unemployment. Reagan boasted that in four years the Soviets had not added an inch to the territory under Communist control. After four successive presidencies widely regarded as disappointing, Americans strongly approved a White House tenure that could be described, for the moment at least, as a success...
...trade gap greatly worsened what would otherwise have been a normal slowing after a period of rapid expansion. Such pauses for breath frequently aroused fears of a slump during the economic recoveries that occurred in the 1960s and '70s. Recalled Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota economist and the chief economic adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: "I remember Kennedy being terribly worried in 1962 that there would be a recession, and on the basis of very much the same kind of thing we are looking at here. We assured him that that would...
...world where rapid economic development is critical to the survival of the poorest, painstaking environmental concerns and flawless safeguards against disaster often seem like impossible or impractical luxuries. Lurching sometimes, stumbling at others, technology and its many implications move forward. "As a society," says Michael Brown, author of Laying Waste, a study of toxic chemicals in America, "we have to accept reasonable risks in order to reap reasonable benefits." Knowing the benefits is easy. The hard part is achieving acceptable odds on the risks. -By Natalie Angler. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Peter Stoler/New York, with other bureaus
REWORKING OR at least reassessing the relationship between rapid technological change and social conditions means stepping in on a juggling act. It is possible to strike a balance between the "limited capacity" scenario and allowing technology to solve its own problems. What the new powers of medicine should not be is a call to take extreme sides; any scientific advance has a problem on its flip side, and by concentrating on the extreme alternatives the public confuses its dilemma. Scientific change and social change often run as two trains on independent tracks at different speeds. We tend to leap from...