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...open letter to the Harvard community. It is an act which is costly to Harvard, and while I would be happy to answer questions about the assessment of the costs of this policy, suffice it to say that we are talking about excluding, as a matter of policy, a set of companies which taken in the aggregate constitute roughly 46 per cent of the market value of the Standard & Poor's 500, which is the set of large, well-managed, high capitalization companies in the United States economy...
...mandatory controls fail? Carter is trying to hold off the flood of inflationary growth without addressing the source; his approach is entirely superficial. The health care industry obeys the peculiar laws of nearly insatiable demand controlled by doctors and rising prices set by medical suppliers insensitive to hospital administrators because they knew he can pass the cost on to the insurer...
CARTER IS RIGHT when the points to escalating hospital costs as a major source of inflation, but his ceiling on revenues is at best a stop-gap measure. More fundamental changes are needed, but as usual the public seems solidly set in its apathetic ways. Everyone has a hospital horror story, but few maintain a running interest in the issues of hospital organization and economics. For most people, serious illnesses are rare, and when they do happen insurance cushions the blow. The average patient pays only 8 per cent of his hospital bill, though this fee can still seem catastrophic...
Both Ms. Simon's recent article, "Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates," and the letter published March 6 entitled "Selfishness," miss the point of Gus Yates' recent ascent of Mt. Katahdin. Mr. Yates did not set out to endanger the life of anyone. In fact, on my many outdoor trips with Mr. Yates I have been extremely impressed with his concern for the safety of the trip members and the preservation of the environment. He is, however, a very individualistic and independent person...
After the sale, Hampshire employed Standish, Ayer and Woods, an investment management firm, to reinvest its money. In summer 1978, the Committee at Hampshire on Investment Responsibility (CHOIR), set up after the demonstration to review all new investments, learned of the South African investments...