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...School's network of specialized research centers relentlessly churn out remedies for the nation's ills, and more research groups are planned for the future. The program of practitioner-training seminars, perhaps the school's favorite son among all of its prodigies, is also hitting the growth spurt of the Wonderbread years. In particular, the Senior Executive Fellows program (SEF) slotted for next fall, has many a K-School coordinator gleefully scheduling batteries of seminars and luncheons...
This acquisitive and creative spurt has pushed revenues from $911 million in 1975 to $2.5 billion last year. Says Munro: "I think the company is going to have to be somewhat more structured and somewhat more disciplined. Instead of being highly growth-oriented, I expect our emphasis will be on distribution of available capital and control of that capital...
...worse I do, the more popular I get," mused President John F. Kennedy, baffled by his spurt in the polls after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Can Jimmy Carter make political gains from a military misfortune? The consensus among political experts is that he may in the short run because the country tends to rally round a President in a crisis, even a crisis that he has caused. But on reflection the voters are likely to conclude that once again Carter has failed. Said Theodore Lowi, a political science professor at Cornell: "History has proved that presidential support always improves...
Finally, a wage-price freeze, if temporary, would have little or no effect on inflation. The inflationary spurt after Nixon lifted his price controls in 1974 simply reflected pent-up pressures. The freeze did little to dampen expectations of inflation, and in the views of some economists may ultimately have led to even higher price levels! A more permanent freeze would have the defects mentioned earlier. It is not clear that such a system of permanent administrative price setting--approximating the system in a centrally planned economy--would be desirable, despite the many drawbacks of a market-based economy...
About 70% of all college buildings in the U.S. were erected after 1950, more than one-third of them in an eight-year spurt following 1966, when federal funds flowed freely and administrators hustled to accommodate the baby boom. Cutting corners with low-grade materials, designers often created buildings that aged prematurely and consumed heating oil as if it would cost 160 per gal. forever. With their budgets severely strained, school officials have paid only for the absolute necessities: soaring energy bills, teachers' salaries, research costs. As a result, maintenance budgets have shrunk proportionally, just as buildings and machinery...