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...other hand, has long objected to the quick turnover of securities by stock- and bondholders. Ever since he headed a blue-ribbon panel that investigated the 1987 Wall Street crash, Brady has waged a personal campaign to get people to make long-term investments rather than take short-term profits. A tax on security transactions, Brady feels, would encourage investors to take the longer view...
...Rubik's Cube and Space Invaders. They are consummate game players and grade grubbers. "Unlike yuppies, younger people are not driven from within, they need reinforcement," says Penny Erikson, 40, a senior vice president at the Young & Rubicam ad agency, which has hired many recent college graduates. "They prefer short-term tasks with observable results...
...already met its circulation target of 600,000 readers and that its average of 20 advertising pages an issue is "extraordinary" for a new magazine, especially one born in a soft economy. Two key tests of the magazine's viability, industry observers believe, will be renewal rates of short-term subscriptions and the response to new mailings of subscription offers...
...years ago,...environmental issues were regarded as threats of ideological conflict, where champions of Nature battled champions of Progress," says Wilson. "Liberals... blocked dams to save oddly named small fish, while conservatives destroyed the environment for short-term profits...
...solution is not to stunt such interest. It should be to build or find the needed space. In the short-term, Harvard should decrease the cost to student groups of performing in Harvard-affiliated properties, and administrators should stop playing favorites for the little space available...