Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yet even HSTO admits that prior to the recent rate reduction, its international rates were not competitive for some countries in comparison to other long-distance carriers. Further, domestic long-distance rates remain high. Clearly, HSTO must do more to pass on the benefits of its natural monopoly to students...
Last year, budget cutting efforts led the Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the University's two governing boards, to approve a one percent reduction in contribution to faculty pension plan and a reorganization of the health care plans.
As for the emotional issue necessary to energize third parties, we don't have to look very far. There already exists a passionate distrust in the political system, and a disdain for government's motives and decision-making abilities. The attempts of some Republicans and Democrats to respond by championing...
In fact, it turns out that being humane actually saves money. Catherine Hawes of the nonprofit Research Triangle Institute estimated that after the 1987 reform legislation was passed, $2 billion was saved by 269 nursing homes from fewer emergency hospitalizations, less malnutrition, a 30% decrease in the use of catheters...
"Simply put, professors at Harvard and elsewhere are now guaranteed a job for life, with no reduction in benefits and prospect for a performance review, ever," former Business School dean John H. McArthur wrote in the October HBS Bulletin. "This is an impossible situation for our school."