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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there will be no recession. Then he added: "Frankly, if I had any money I'd be buying stocks right now." The comment was rather reminiscent of John D. Rockefeller's attempt to rally public confidence during the Great Crash.* The Rockefeller bullishness did scarcely anything to stem the market decline in 1929, but Nixon's remark did a little to crystallize sentiment that stock prices had reached bargain levels. It helped set off a technical rally in a deeply oversold market...
...excessive material and political difficulties for the American government generated by the conflict. At a time when it appeared that armed escalation would he successful. Harvard's ROTC units provided a supply of junior officers with which to conduct the war: when escalation demonstrated itself insufficient to stem popular insurgency in Indochina, such agencies as the East Asian Research Center and the Center for International Affairs explored various social-scientific techniques to implement "Vietnamization...
Chalk's problems stem from what Senator George Murphy terms "some new type of financial legerdemain," but what might more accurately be attributed to, as Senator John J. Williams puts it, "a case of having milked the company dry of its assets." Chalk started out well enough. He replaced old streetcars with spiffy new air-conditioned buses, and demanded prompt, courteous service from his drivers. Longstanding union grievances were eased by increasing drivers' wages to the point that they were the fourth best in the country for city transport workers. Within two years, however, Chalk began paying dividends...
Adult Models. How to stem the trend toward increased alienation of the young? Bronfenbrenner says that U.S. parents must reinvolve themselves in their children's lives, must reclaim their status as the "most contagious" models of behavior. In the schools, teachers should take renewed interest in the development of their charges. Classrooms should generate healthy "group competition and organized patterns of mutual help"; older classes might adopt the Soviet plan of taking on younger grades as "ward classes." Bronfenbrenner, one of the founders of Head Start, feels that neighborhood programs-especially those involving parents and other adult models...
...stem the decrease in donors, the University is attempting to keep alumni better informed of events at the College than they have been in the past...