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...club. With so few female professors and administrators, Harvard already seems an institution ill-equipped to deal with a matter like sexual harassment. Although Lewis has said that more than 25 women came to her this year alone with complaints of sexual harassment--and this is no doubt the tip of a much larger iceberg--each of these women is made to feel that she is the only one. Only when cases of sexual harassment are publicized and publicly condemned, will women know that this is something the College takes seriously--something women now have no way of knowing...
...cause of the present economic malaise. Said he: "Current interest rates are largely a function of long-term inflation expectations, and that, in turn, is based on the long-term budget outlook. I think that the failure of the so-called budget summit between the President and House Speaker Tip O'Neill was an expensive failure...
...scene in the House, which begins voting on the budget this week, was fairly close to legislative anarchy. Seven budgets had been drafted by the end of last week: three major ones by Democratic leaders headed by Speaker Tip O'Neill, Republican leaders and a bipartisan coalition of moderates; one by staunch conservatives, two competing ones by liberals and one by the 18-member Black Caucus. In addition, floor rules will permit votes on 68 separate amendments. House Republican leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending...
...testament. Incongruously present are the not so dear departed, hugely enjoying themselves as the lawyer tells the grieving heirs: "To Ronald Reagan we leave a recession, inflation at 12.4% and rising, gas prices sky high." Chortling merrily at the dubious bequest are-could it be? - Democrats Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill...
...more egregious examples of the partisanship that has dogged all efforts at Social Security reform, House Speaker Tip O'Neill ordered Pickle to go no further. The reason: O'Neill saw an opportunity for Democrats to assail Reagan as an enemy of Social Security, and he did not want the issue clouded by anything that could be interpreted as a Democratic plan to reduce benefits for anybody...