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Gerrity and other administrators demur when asked to cite specific recruiting efforts that have broken down over the issues of salary. "There are all kinds of reasons people withdraw from being considered for tenured openings," says Robert Kaufman. Gerrity's predecessor as associate dean for financial affairs. And officials flatly deny that any professor has ever left Harvard out of dissatisfaction with his salary. "I've been dean for nine years," says Rosovsky, "and I can't think of a single individual who left here on a salary issue...
...makes "social interaction" all the more essential. It's very easy for graduate students to isolate themselves to the point where if they have a problem or become depressed, no one realizes it. Marshall says, adding that this may have been one of the underlying factors which led his predecessor, former graduate student council president Thomas McDonell, to commit suicide last December. This, Marshall contends, is "one of the biggest problems" in graduate life...
...would like to advise keeping well in mind that America's friends are those who do not care whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat. He should be wary of adulators and of those who, hoping to ingratiate themselves with him, will speak ill of his predecessor. He must also be patient with a contradiction that he will find circulating in Europe, and that can be found in other parts of the world as well: many people would like Washington to deal with everyone and everything, and to assume the burden of every crisis or international difficulty...
...trim, well-dressed lawyer from Santiago, Jorge Blanco, 55, advocates a mix of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
...former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and John Glenn of Ohio and Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin. To that chorus last week came an influential voice from the Republican side, Henry Kissinger. In a speech at The Hague, Vance and Muskie's predecessor as Secretary of State said of SALT II: "It seems to me a reasonable way to end the current impasse, establish a baseline for later reductions and end the agitation for quick fixes." Kissinger, who helped lay the groundwork for SALT II, recommended modifications to the treaty, such as slightly lowering...