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...result was an easily accessible master list of students eligible for work study--a breach of privacy in many students' eyes...
Marshall wrote the court's majority opinion in a separate case that made it more difficult for plaintiffs to receive large amounts of money in punitive damages. As a result of the ruling, the damages awarded in Harvard's case were...
...described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle, to the Simon's Rock College officials who failed to detain Lo even after they were warned that he had a gun. The result is a tapestry of shared pain and guilt in which everyone, including the killer, is in some sense a victim...
...lead to more leisure for workers--in about 15 years, says Varian. The reasoning: more work can be done in less time. Romer is unsure about leisure, but predicts another, generally beneficial aspect of the speedup. Faster economic growth will lead to higher wages, he says, and as a result, "the cost of people's time will be going up. That's a trend you can count on into the far future...
...hand, Sinai senses an enhanced source of instability--the frenzied pace of stock and real estate trading, speeded up by the Internet and intensified by the enthusiasm of investors for Internet stocks, some of which may take many years to justify their current prices, if they ever do. The result may be a "bubble" of inflated prices for some Internet and IT companies, ending in a crash. Varian observes that the vastly greater speed of business information collecting and decision making ought to help executives avoid costly mistakes. But, he adds, there is a "dark side of the force. When...