Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as abruptly slowed down this spring, many officials drew the old and painful lesson that today's official line may be tomorrow's heresy. Says a U.S. Sinologist who has recently visited several provinces: "Chinese officials seem to have decided that things are still far too uncertain and that they've got to play it safe and look out for No. 1." To a growing minority of officials with an appetite for the good life, that means not only pressing foreigners for favors, but also siphoning off material goods for their own use, and sometimes even...
Recently Harvard's biggest gains have come in the federal sector--a welcome, if uncertain, windfall. A Congress intent on budget-cutting could slash aid to education any time and administrators remain wary of relying heavily on the federal funds. But for this year, the Middle Income Student Assistance Act that Congress passed in October 1978 should double both grants to students and federal work-study projects at Harvard. As R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the office of fiscal services, says, "it's the biggest increase for federal aid to education ever--you can't knock that...
...next, he is more apt to shrug and say, "I guess I'll go to business school." As President Bok says in his annual report this year, treating the B-School, "Before long, a business education will rival legal training as an outlet for ambitious students of uncertain vocation, since everyone who aspires to 'take charge' and 'run something' will perceive that a business degree offers a path-way to manage any complex organization from a company to a hospital to a government...
...days ahead, when legislation to create a Cabinet-level Department of Education--H. R. 13778--is debated on the floor of the House, the long and uncertain history of the educational establishment may reach a watershed. Similar legislation--S. 991--moved quickly through the Senate earlier this year, eventually passing by an overwhelming 72-21 margin. In the House, the legislation leaped over its biggest obstacle last month, when it squeaked by the House Government Operations Committee on a 21-20 vote. Parker Cottington, spokesman for Harvard's Office of Government and Community Relations, which has gone on record against...
...narrow Tory margin suggested that Canadian voters were tired of Trudeau but uncertain about Clark's ability to handle the country's problems. The economy has gone slack; inflation is nearly 10%, and unemployment hovers...