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Even when the contributors are as prosperous as Harvard alumni tend to be, how easy will raising a quarter of a billion dollars in a stagnant economy be? Officials agree that only a troubled economy could cause the Corporation to decide against launching the drive. "If it gets much worse than a mild recession, we'd be crazy to kick off a drive," Glimp says. "If the drive gets delayed or put off, a really severe economic downturn would be the cause," according to Gibbens...
...leverage that the Norwegian deal would have provided. Though it is Sweden's largest company (1978 sales: $4.3 billion), its share of the vitally important U.S. and European auto markets is precariously thin, and profits at home have been squeezed by Sweden's high wages and stagnant productivity. With the price of a top-of-the-line Volvo now $16,000 in most markets Gyllenhammar had been counting on his Norwegian connection for the money needed to develop a radically designed lightweight vehicle that would give the company broader market appeal for the mid-1980s...
...very least the arrival of Brustein and company will provide an exciting change from what is--with a few exceptions--a stagnant and unprovocative theater, and an all-out challenge to a curriculum with serious gaps. At most, it could be the beginning of a new era for the performing arts at Harvard, and a model for the teaching of drama at every school in this country. We risk little--a few productions a year in the Loeb--and stand to gain a whole lot. Let's drop our suspicions and embrace the possibilities...
While challenging the tactics of the corps, the environmentalists oppose the Tenn-Tom on more basic grounds. They believe that the largely unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
...bursts out, Whitman warns, "the worst casualties would be the least well-off countries. The industrialized countries would muddle through. But all economies would grow more slowly, and that would exacerbate the issue of income distribution. It's a lot easier to redistribute a growing pie than a stagnant...