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...long with these less than difficult challenges, Clinton has also benefited from practice. While he is wont to say that this is his last campaign, he does not mention that it is his tenth in 22 years. The only biennial years in which he did not have to seek reelection were 1988 and 1994. Only career legislators in the United States House even come close to this record. Couple this with the "permanent campaign" of crafting a legislative agenda through polling, focus groups and public relations blitzes that he and Dick Morris created in 1983 and 1984. Clinton has literally...
...this successful work, four of HMC's managers earned between $1 million and $3.7 million in salary and bonuses for fiscal year 1995. A fifth employee, Jonathon S. Jacobson, raked in $6.1 million for managing approximately one-tenth of Harvard's $8 billion endowment. This high level of compensation is warranted if they are necessary to maximize the return on the University's investments. President Neil L. Rudenstine, who often seems to know more about monetary affairs than any other aspect of Harvard life, defends HMC as "very cost-effective...
...charge, but the cost was nominal. Average tuition and room and board for in-state students at public four-year schools was less than $1,000 until 1966; tuition alone was less than $1,000 until 1985. The understanding was that states would charge a student only about a tenth of the actual cost of educating him or her in a public university. State universities were fantastically good politics: pork-barrel construction projects and middle-class entitlement programs rolled into one. Most states committed large portions of their budgets to subsidizing their universities...
...report urges readers to "note that over four-fifths of the unemployed [Ph.D.s] intended academic careers, compared with under a tenth of those intending nonacademic careers or either. In other words, frustration and disappointment are undoubtedly more the domain of those bound for academia...
...Crandall would spend the next four years together in the Tenth Mountain...