Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...problem of inflation has gotten so severe that all cures are beginning to look worse than the disease, Barry Bosworth, former director of the Council on Wage and Price Study told a large crowd at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
Houthakker added that the cure for the problem was to be found in stricter monetary policy, which would produce some unemployment, but not at an unacceptable level...
...crux of the problem is disagreement about the political character of a certain kind of activity that Harvard carries on officially. At least, the President of the University should not present this as a simple fight between two people who do and do not respect academic freedom...
...rouse the vast, annoyed center from its torpor. This is actually what happened in the Harberger case. But it has its disadvantages: the confusion about academic freedom that it produces, the unavoidability of enthroning lackluster figures who offend nobody, and, above all, the failure to deal with the root problem of politics secluded against opportunities for conflict or accountability. This situation is not just imprudent, it is unjust. It deprives those who oppose HIID's field programs of any effective form of representation, agitation, or resistance, while lending these programs the name of the University to which we all belong...
...field programs without insisting on the difference between academic and political activity even if at heart most of them do seem to care about the difference. Others will be misinterpreted as if they were careless of academic freedom. Though the academic classes usually prefer distinguish to inventing, this problem seems to overtax their capacity for distinction. We should not expose ourselves to repeated occasions for disagreement, bluster, and bitterness over something that is fundamental to us in exchange for something that contributes almost nothing to our basic endeavor as a university. It's a matter of common sense. So, once...