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Harvard ran a small surplus in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1982, overcoming a poor investment climate, a stagnant economy, and a drop in federal support for student aid and research, the University's annual financial report showed...
...force in Eastern Europe, where it might face unrest and rebellion, similar to that in Poland, during the rest of the 1980s. "The Soviet imperial system is suffering from a sickness, a deep systemic crisis," says Bialer. "For the Kremlin, Poland is not a cold, but pneumonia." With their stagnant economy, the Soviets will not be able to apply the balm of aid to their satellite states. This, in turn, could plunge the fragile economies of Eastern Europe into even deeper trouble...
...coming of age. But unlike the plot in Dillion's Little Darlings coming of age in Bixby. Oklahoma doesn't involve a virgin's race to promiscuity. Instead, it deals with the education of a fifteen-year-old's sentiments as Tex reconciles his idealized happiness with his seemingly stagnant and often trying life...
...seeking alternatives. A minority of environmentalists and others opposed to nuclear power and the deployment in Europe of U.S. medium-range nuclear weapons have drifted leftward. A greater number have moved to the right in protest against the ever increasing tax burden needed to maintain extensive welfare programs in stagnant economies. In September, Denmark got its first conservative Prime Minister in 81 years, Poul Schlüter, who immediately pushed through an austerity program. Belgium's Christian Democratic Prime Minister Wilfried Martens took office a year ago with the avowed aim of cutting back government spending. In a welter...
...recent jump in Harvard's portfolio value follows a basically stagnant year of investing for almost all universities...