Word: research
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...more than, for example, the Jewish or woman's perspective. The study of a particular culture is interdisciplinary, they add, and ought to draw on a number of departments and scholars. Moreover, they say scholars in Afro-American Studies do not employ a single methodology but instead approach their research using the tools of history, anthropology, or economics...
...former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a longtime foe of the University, demanded in January that Harvard increase its in-lieu-of-tax payment, later asked for a review of the tax-exempt status of the Biological Laboratories on the grounds that private funds were being used for research, and just two weeks ago sponsored a City Council motion requesting $150,000 from Harvard for a new fire truck. "Every time we answer an alarm at one of their tax-exempt buildings, it costs us money," Vellucci said...
Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Economics and chairman of the Economics Department, says now that the bureau has moved to Cambridge, he suspects more professors work there than at any other research institute. "All professors do research, and really, the bureau is just one vehicle through which to do it. It probably diverts them less than some other activities," he says...
When the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. (NBER) moved to Cambridge two years ago at the order of newly-chosen president Martin S. Feldstein, professor of Economics, 14 other professors began to exit Littauer regularly for offices on Cambridge Street, with some two dozen students...
While Eckstein defends the independence and diversity of NBER, many observers have noted with some skepticism Feldstein's influence in guiding and shaping the bureau: critics have claimed the bureau has developed into a Harvard-dominated research center. Though the University's presence in the NBER is inescapably obvious, proponents maintain the bureau has full independence...