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...many junior faculty members say they feel the crunch more critically. The Crimson survey of junior faculty found that they spend on average only 30 percent of their working school-year time on research and writing, compared to 50 percent on teaching and 20 percent on administrative duties. "I need to publish more or I'm not going to get promoted," says one social scientist...
This influx could result in crowding in the Houses, when students returning from leave--whose places the transfer students filled--return to the system, according to Dingman. Dingman predicts that the crunch may force the Houses to accomodate as many as 30 extra people. "We're counting on the Houses to be as inventive as they can about this. For example, seniors may not get the type of accomodations they traditionally have been promised," he says...
...libraries across the country face the same problems. While none are anywhere near as large as Harvard's--which, with 11 million volumes, is the second largest in North America after the Library of Congress--most are farther along in using computers and better able to solve the space crunch...
Although McLean has run in the black in recent years, administrators fear that rising health-care costs, increasingly restrictive government regulations, and the need for long overdue capital improvements may cause a severe fiscal crunch within the next decade...
...Kerin, vice president for economics and research of the National Association of Realtors: "Our greatest fear is another notch up in mortgage rates. If they go up another three-quarters of a percentage point, we could repeat the experience of 1981 and 1982 and end up with a housing crunch...