Word: subject
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, Rosovsky says "in a new subject beginning to establish itself, the better bridges it has to other parts of the University, the better for that department." Guinier says, however, that joint appointments restrict the amount of time and energy a professor can put into either of his two departments...
...capital formation and human resource studies, along with a tremendous turnover in personnel, have given the bureau new vitality. "The bureau has always been a great institution, and periodically it needs renewal," he says. "Now, it has been renewed." Eckstein adds that a factual and empirical focus is not subject ot renewal; the NBER's first president began the bureau in a rebellion against the theoretical thrust of economics at that time. But because it is impossible to dictate what research will improve the performance of the U.S. economy, Eckstein says research must be done without prior expectations. "Goal-oriented...
...Jersey Turnpike. Now and then he rules out a topic for a while because he is tired of it or thinks readers are. Just now he is avoiding women's liberation, although its solemnities are "a gold mine," because the mail he receives when he mentions the subject is abusive...
Charles H. Dorsey, managing editor of the Sun, wanted Baker back and offered him a column on whatever subject he wanted. Baker accepted and told Reston. Baker says now that he thinks no one had ever quit the Times before. "They weren't used to it," he adds. So Reston persuaded the publisher, Orvil Dryfoos, to counteroffer him a column at the Times. The Sun lost Baker again, this time for good...
...intersect in Congress, which seems to be dissolving into dreary incoherence. Congress, with its delicate Geiger counters of mood all activated and ticking gently, refused even to grant the Administration stand-by authority to ration gas-although it is true that Carter's approach on that subject was notably clumsy...