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...another interesting issue area is rent control. Harvard officials sometimes question the legal "right" of Cambridge to restrict the University's real estate policy. Student and faculty groups sometimes condemn the University as a political "bully" of sorts as it attempts to implement real estate programs in its extensive Cambridge holdings...
...been virtually unanimous in condemning the various attempts of the Reagan Administration to control the availability of research results in the name of national security. This is never portrayed as a "political" issue, but rather as a First Amendment situation in which the Federal government has no "right" to restrict Harvard...
...DEAN OF THE Faculty of Arts and Sciences is vested with the responsibility to discipline faculty members found guilty of sexual harassment. The dean might in theory restrict an offender from teaching required courses (which former Dean Henry Rosovsky apparently never chose to do). But unless the dean levies such punishment, the department is powerless to dictate what a professor can and cannot teach because of a past offense...
...jobs to imports. Other probable provisions look risky but not necessarily bad. For example, there is a strong move to tighten sections 201 and 301 of the 1974 Trade Act, which permit the President to put countervailing duties on subsidized imports and retaliate against the products of countries that restrict American exports. Such actions always pose a danger of hampering the flow of trade, but on occasion they can lead to a more open exchange. Take the July "pasta war": the U.S. got the European Community to drop restraints on American citrus products by briefly restricting imports of pasta...
...subsidy: $300 million from the Treasury to help U.S. companies match the generous credit terms that exporters in foreign country A, with assistance from their government, might offer to buyers in foreign country B. Reagan also promised to "work unceasingly" to tear down such trade barriers as laws that restrict the sale of U.S. insurance in South Korea and high-tech products in Brazil. He cited world trade treaties that permit highly selective limits on the sale in the U.S. of products from those countries...