Word: young
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between the bureau and Harvard is fairly close now because Feldstein is president and has rebuilt the bureau around a younger generation," Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and Harvard's appointee to the NBER's Board of Directors, says. "He has attracted a group of young scholars, many from Harvard--bright, capable people still in their creative years...
...community spirit, provides an efficient and effective environment for study, as well as office space, resources and access to other economists. In addition, some say it may be easier to get grant money through the NBER than through an individual application. The bureau, in turn, has at its disposal young and outstanding economists. "Harvard has been very good in facilitating our operation," McLure says...
...testimony to the usefulness of her own education. "It has truly helped me," she says, "in solving the problems of my own life. I don't know what I would have done without it. I only hope we can continue to fulfill the same role in the lives of young women...
Many people in the city planning profession would tell him to hire some bright young graduates from the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) of Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). But many others would insist he avoid that institution altogether. "They teach you economic analysis, not city planning, over there on the Charles," one of these critics might...
ENRIQUE LOPEZ, "Hank" to his friends, should never have come to Harvard. Lopez jokes about it. In his last year as an undergraduate at the University of Denver, he explains, a bigshot economics professor took him under his wing, doctored the young man's transcripts to make it look like Lopez had minored in economics, and sent him packing to Cambridge--as a graduate student in Economics. Lopez, who had never really taken any economic theory, went to classes here but, as he put it, "They might as well have been talking in Swahili." He made it through one year...