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...same time that the new company cuts down on Harvard's costs, the three other firms with some University money will provide a yardstick to measure its effectiveness...
WAGE-PRICE CONTROLS A system yardstick designed to keep inflation in firm check. Wages are to rise no faster than 5.5% annually, prices no more than 2.5%. Profit margins are controlled. Enforcement is divided between the Pay Board and the Price Commission. Compliance is mixed at first, then moves to within acceptable distance of the goals...
...controversy has revolved around the semantic or real differences between "goals and timetables" required by HEW, and quotas, which seem to be unusually detested. The government has repeatedly stressed that these target figures are only "the measure or yardstick" to determine whether other affirmative action policies are achieving their goals of increasing the number of women and minorities in the workforce. An institution only has to show that it made "good faith efforts" to meet the goals which the institution itself drew up based on its own estimate of available candidates...
...outside funding, the Kraus plan in Harvard's effort to distribute the limited resources to those who need it most. The student's need is calculated from the students' parental income, personal resources and living expenses, which is applied to all first-through fifth-year students as a yardstick for determining aid. Under the plan, however, departments can choose to fund students $1000 below their calculated need, and use the difference to swell their number of "merit scholarships," which are awarded at the discretion of department chairmen...
While "sex-blind" admissions is open to the subtle discrimination against women, 1:1 admissions would eliminate all subtleties and prejudices by forcing the numerically equal admission of men and women. But it would also create an unbending admissions yardstick which could severely hurt small, or poorly endowed, institutions...