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...Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Interior Committee, said that in the absence of a moratorium "there will be a tendency to use Band-Aids where surgery is required...
...Democratic counterpart, Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (W. Va.). Baker's amendments, which had the potential to kill SALT II, met defeat by a one-vote margin in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday, and Capitol Hill colleagues have no idea how the skillful politician plans to use the issue for further gain...
...SENATE FINANCE Committee's recent approval of $17 billion in tax breaks for producers of synthetic fuels and for businesses that use conventional energy sources such as solar power represents a great improvement over an earlier $54 billion version of the bill. The new bill, which slows the push for synthetic fuels, recognizes that the "man-on-the-moon" crash program for synthetic fuels proposed during the summer by President Carter presented several dangers...
Private management companies for universities like HMC are rare; most colleges use outside firms. Jerald L. Stevens, Yale treasurer, says Yale splits its endowment up among five external managers. "We have contracts where we hold them to a management fee and to targeted results." Stevens says. "We don't anticipate moving to a Harvard model," he adds...
This answer to the "asset mix question" is the centerpiece of Harvard's market strategy, but HMC also tries to use its flexibility to experiment in sophisticated fields like stock-lending, arbitrage and options. "These tools are not very well known in the investment business, and we want to know at least as much about them as anyone else," Putnam says...