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...California were a country, local politicians like to point out, it would have the seventh largest economy in the world. But that economy may not be eternally resilient. The seven-year drought in the Central Valley cost farmers roughly $1.7 billion. The three days of rioting in 1992 cost 57 lives and $1 billion in destroyed property. Last summer brush fires devoured nearly 1,000 homes in some of the richest enclaves in America. All the while the re- engineering of America's post-cold war economy drained California of 202,000 aerospace jobs, plunging the state into the country...
...staff members lost their jobs after an advisory committee recommended a restructuring of the museum to curb the seven-year cumulative deficit of $1 million...
...drastic decision initially looked like a courageous example of fiscal responsibility. One could argue that, in response to the museum's seven-year cumulative deficit of $1 million, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles properly chose to cut the staff while emphasizing the museum's academic functions rather than its public ones. But $1 million over 7 years is chump change for a University about to launch a $2 billion fund drive--a University that spent more than $100,000 on a sign for the Shops By Harvard Yard...
...staff members, who, will leave the museum on December 17, and several supporters of the museum have accused Stager of hampering their fundraising efforts to curb the museum's seven-year cumulative $1 million deficit...
...This is very good news, because this is exactly what Harvard and other graduate schools need to be doing," said McCarthy, though he said there is at least a seven-year lag time before the new graduate students enter the faculty ranks...