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Cheney's abrupt action showed too that the shriveling of the defense budget is little affected by such immediate emergencies as a potential war in the Persian Gulf. For contractors, the long- and short-term trends are contradictory. As the developers of new weapons systems face increasingly tough times, suppliers who meet the needs of Desert Shield with such items as boots, camouflage netting and gas masks are enjoying an unexpected -- but presumably brief -- bonanza...
...people rolled through the cities, emergency shelters seemed the surest and quickest way to get them off the streets. So most of the money allocated by Congress and by states went toward emergency, rather than preventive, care. Only rarely was there money for rental assistance, tenant-landlord mediation or short-term crisis loans to help the near homeless keep the roofs over their heads. Public money paid slumlords $2,000 a month to put up families in "welfare hotels." But this did nothing to ease the families' desperation, fight their addictions or restore their dignity. The emergency shelters grew...
...have gotten to this situation because the leadership of the health- sciences research community has addressed the problems on a short-term, piecemeal basis, essentially looking at the problem only as long as the one- year budget cycle of Congress. That style of leadership has led to a virtual roller coaster of boom and bust. We are now suffering from a vacuum in national leadership for science in general and health science in particular...
Afro-Am currently has one professor to itspermanent roster. Next semester, when Professor ofAmerican Literature and Afro-American StudiesWerner Sollors goes on leave, only visitingscholars and those with short-term appointmentswill teach department courses...
Olin has pledged indefinite support for Huntington's program, in essence institutionalizing national security studies at Harvard. Unlike many foundations which approve more short-term work, Olin has made a lasting commitment to this project...