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That was the consensus yesterday afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., where the Harvard hoopsters were resting up from a winter vacation tour, awaiting a final game last night against Pepperdine...
...board members have some differences about the outlook. Eckstein thinks the recession will last only two quarters; Robert Nathan, a Washington economic consultant, fears that it may stretch out over as many as four. The consensus is two or perhaps three quarters. Eckstein calculates that corporate profits after taxes will rise only 5% next year, vs. 14% in 1978-and will go up even that modestly only because the tax rate on most corporate income will drop from 48% to 46% on Jan. 1. Arthur Okun, senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, put the increase even after taxes...
There seems to be a consensus among Chicagoans that an expensive and bitterly resisted busing program, like the one imposed in Los Angeles this fall by a federal district judge, would not lead either to quality education or to integration. University of Chicago Sociologist James Coleman, whose antibusing views have stirred academic controversy, believes a voluntary plan is the only way lasting desegregation can be achieved in Chicago. Says he: "The apparent solution requires going back to the fundamental issue of equal education opportunity, regardless of race. Every child should have an opportunity to attend a school other than...
...consensus of those meetings was more constructive than the assignment of blame to any one agency or even to any one Administration: ever since the 1960s, when Britain was withdrawing from east of the Suez and the Shah proclaimed himself the guardian of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.Iranian connection has been a textbook case of what diplomats call "clientitis"-the fallacy of mistaking an ally's interests for one's own. The U.S. failed to see that the Shah was weak simply because it had long been a principle of policy, and therefore an article of faith, that...
...vote came as a mild surprise. At the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury last August, a broad consensus of bishops of the Anglican communion from 25 nations joined those of the mother church in agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women...