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Critics claim that her real goal is to slash the agency's budget and staff so deeply that it cannot function. Gorsuch has volunteered reductions in EPA spending from $1.36 billion a year when she took office to less than $950 million by fiscal 1983. A ranking official of EPA last week disclosed that Gorsuch is readying dismissal notices for at least 750 of the agency's 4,200 Washington headquarters staff and probably for a commensurate percentage of the 5,800 field staff. Those cuts would come on top of the 1,000 jobs already eliminated...
...distinct worlds of data processing and communications have increasingly fused together into a vast new megamarket. Computers a continent apart communicate with each other over telephone lines and via satellite transmissions. Meanwhile, the elaborate multibillion-dollar telephone networks that make such communications possible have grown dependent on computers to function...
...amused and enraged to read, once again, that members of the administration and faculty denied that the CRR existed to discipline students for political activity. It is important that students realize that such discipline is its function, and that the student boycott has been effective. Students have engaged in activity which could be interpreted as a violation of the resolution of rights and responsibilities and they have not been disciplined...
Finally, almost any protest can be punished under the resolution's expansive language. The "right," asserted in the resolution, to "demonstrate...in orderly fashion" means little. For example, a class boycott three years ago clearly disrupted the "central" educational function of the University. The organizers, even the participants, could have been disciplined. Similarly, a "phone-in" of Derek Bok's office was also legal, non-violent, and a violation of the resolution on rights and responsibilities. Even last year's library sit-in was a violation. In fact, the resolution denies students the right to undertake any action the University...
...endowment increased by $131,674,000 during the year to a level of $1,622,734,000. Seventy-one percent of the endowment represents funds which have been restricted to endowment purposes by donors while the remaining 29.0% constitute departmental funds which have been designated by the Corporation to function as endowment on a temporary basis. At year end, the general investment portfolio was invested approximately 62.0% in equities and related instruments and approximately 38.0% in cash and fixed-income securities. The annual report of the Harvard Management Company, which supervises the University's investment program, together with summaries...