Word: vogel
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...Ezra F. Vogel, professor of sociology, said yesterday the plan did not represent a great departure in Chinese policy. He said China "has been trying to cut the budget for some time" because its economy is in a "terrible mess...
Agreeing with Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Economics, said yesterday that China's policy is a "continuation of a process which began in the middle of 1979 when China felt it had overreached itself" in earlier programs. Perkins said that the shift from heavy industry to consumer goods has been underway since the goals of the Cultural Revolution were "fundamentally abandoned...
...Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, said yesterday he will offer "words of anguish" on American industry's inability to compete with Japan...
...They're outcompeting us. If we don't move quickly we're going to be out of business with steel, and maybe even cars," Vogel said, adding that the conference "is an opportunity to get people to think about these problems...
Although Ezra Vogel, chairman of the Committee on East Asian Studies, said he believes courses in Asian American Studies should be offered, he said that hiring someone within the Committee to teach them is not a high priority. To overcome this problem, Asian American students organized to develop bibliographies, slideshows, and other resources relevant to history. Last spring, after four years of work, students in the AAA and members of the Bureau of Study Counsel reestablished a House seminar on Asian American Identity and Experience. It had been taught only three times before at Harvard...