Word: reductionism
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In a statement issued yesterday to some faculty members, the Corporation announced that it will maintain the one percent reduction made last June in the University's contribution to faculty pensions, overlooking the objections of a faculty committee.
The FAS Standing Committee on Benefits, convened in the fall following an uproar over benefits cuts, recommended this spring that pension contributions be restored and paid for by a one percent reduction in the growth of FAS faculty salary increases.
For many other faculties, "stability and even ameasure of growth in the rate of salary increases,rather than a reduction, is a high priority,"according to the report.
For Gingrich the political stakes couldn't have been higher. "It's irrational to think you can hold together a center-right coalition if you don't increase the take-home pay of the workers who are part of your coalition," Gingrich told Time. And while polls generally show that...
Hence, American Tabloid (Knopf; 576 pages; $25). One month after publication, the novel is in its fourth printing and is creeping up the best-seller lists. It has attracted favorable, though sometimes nervous, reviews, understandably so. Recommending a book like American Tabloid--and there is no other book quite like...