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...undergraduate, liberal arts education ranks among the lowest priorities of those running the Harvard complex. For all the debate and genuine concern undergraduate curricular reform has engendered, Bok and his administration continue to weaken the stance of liberal arts at Harvard with their choices of tasks for Harvard to accomplish under their guidance. Long before undergraduates can press their claim on Harvard's resources, other programs siphon off faculty and money from Arts and Sciences. Professional education benefits at the expense of liberal arts, the supposed foundation for the other schools...
Otherwise, nothing was settled on the substantive questions. The most important is what authority will be exercised by a self-governing council to be elected by the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza. As Carter noted in his press conference last week, "If we can accomplish that, then the details of exactly how to administer land and water rights and how to administer other specific elements of security, like controlling terrorism, I think will be resolved without delay." Sadat wants the council to act as a legislature. Begin is adamantly opposed, contending that the council should have only narrow...
Kemeny said his decision to resign was based on "a realistic evaluation" of what further he could expect to accomplish as president. He said the "wear and tear of the job" had taken its toll on his energy...
Measuring productivity, usually defined as output per man hour, helps us understand the process of technological change which sets limits on what we can accomplish. Professor Griliches acknowledges both the difficulties in measuring productivity and the limits of our understanding but proceeds to summarize economists' views as to what accounts for the striking decline in American productivity in recent years...
Private companies can best?and at least cost?accomplish the goals of public regulation if the state does not tell them precisely how to control bad side effects but sets standards and allows the companies freedom to devise means of compliance on their own. The Environmental Protection Agency's "bubble plan" for air pollution control is an example of this flexible approach. Rather than strictly controlling the pollutants from each and every smokestack in a factory, the agency sets overall standards for the effluents from the entire plant or groups of plants. The air-quality goal is the same...