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...SHORT-SIGHTED greed-motivated demands for protectionism must be added another ugly element: xenophobia. A sign in front of a UAW headquarters reads "U.S. and Canadian vehicles only. Please park imports elsewhere." For some reason, Canadian cars (which we import in large numbers) don't count as imports, but the Japanese cars do. Mondale reflects this attitude when he asks, "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers and spend a lifetime serving McDonald's hamburgers...
...only changes of the Quincy St. site proposed by the winners was that Lamont Library, which they deemed an "intrusive and annoying element," be demolished and a narrow, building running parallel to Quincy St. be build in its place...
Even if the short-term cash-crunch problem is solved, Deukmejian critics insist that the Governor's overall plan for escaping the crisis also contains a strong element of make-believe. The state faces a deficit of $1.5 billion in the fiscal year that ends June 30, partly because state tax collections have been held down by the recession, partly because spending has been kept high by the need to bail out local governments whose ability to levy property taxes was sharply curtailed by the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978. While Democrats have said that they would...
...wanted to explain to you why I am attached to tenure, and also to explain one positive element of uncapping the retirement age. I think most people view tenure primarily as a protection of academic freedom. I have never looked at it that way exclusively. It seems to me that tenure has another very important role. I like to feel that professors in a university are not employees. I look upon them as shareholders, if you will, of the institution. It represents a kind of social contract between the individual and the institution. We are not people who are extremely...
Kraus is above all an administrator, who sees efficiency as a crucial element of his "compact with the voters." "You are witnessing one of the failures of that compact," he says point to the open windows in his overheated fifth-floor office. Grinning, Kraus explains the state renovated the building a few years back and put the heating system on the roof, where it must fight the natural tendency of heat to rise and force water down five floors into the freezing basement. It is with that kind of administrative inefficiency that Kraus feels his experience at GSAS best equips...