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...levels, often set as far back as the 1950s, to whatever the market would bear. But the plan covered only about half of all commodity prices. The rest, including those of such agricultural staples as rice and other grains, have generally remained fixed under the old rules. This two-tier approach has led to some economic absurdities: farmers, for example, must buy fertilizer at high, decontrolled prices but sell their grain crop at low controlled ones, sometimes at a loss...
Women administrators say it is only a matter of time before women reach the University's highest tier, the Corporation that has final control over all policy decisions...
...takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered to someone else. And in a kind of ripple effect from the leading schools, both the admissions criteria and the intensity of the marketing hype have gone up at second- and third-tier schools, so that they are indeed no longer safe second choices...
...every lifetime post on the Harvard faculty, at least within Arts and Sciences, tends to be the occasion for a national, even international, search. Without a tenure track system, as exists at most universities, the vast majority of junior people have little choice but to emigrate. At the second-tier state university where I teach, the question generally asked about an assistant professor is: "Has he/she published enough to be a reasonable candidate for tenure?" At Harvard, and the handful of similar schools around the country, the question is: "Is this person the very finest we can get from...
Strategists at several "second-tier" campaigns claim that most media polls are limited and misleading. The surveys are targeted toward "likely" voters or caucus-goers--an unscientific designation based on party affiliation and previous voting history. According to Diane Weiland, press secretary to Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign, "A lot of people are new and will not have voted before and therefore won't show up on traditional polls." Jackson considers registering new voters an important objective in his campaign...