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During the past decade inflation cut deeply into the once-stable endowments of universities and private foundations. With their traditional funding sources drying up, schools across the nation began to court the private sector...
...creating the new position, the Development Office took heed of the growing importance of corporate dollars in the University's fiscal scheme, a trend that has become increasingly pronounced during the past few years. Since 1971, private sector donations to Harvard have risen from $6 to $16 million, and last year they accounted for 18 per cent of the University's total received contributions. Medical School research projects, Business School chairs, and the Kennedy School's new buildings all depend on corporate funds...
...idea of free enterprise zones has a lot more going for it than just that. It is based on the sound notion that the ideal "welfare program" is a private sector job--not a government job for people who cannot find private employment; not a CETA-type training job, which in most cases trains people for jobs that do not exist. The idea of the program is to create real jobs...
...dual response of sanctions and of turning the other cheek has only served to strengthen the hawkish elements in the Soviet Union. By accelerating the arms race, the United States has assured that the historically paranoid Soviets place their best resources and brains into the military, the only sector of the Russian economy that works well. Should the West boycott trade with the U.S.S.R. and its satellites altogether, a policy favored by some members of Congress, not only would Western Europe suffer if indeed it went along, but the West might push the Soviets to the economic brink. When people...
...anything, centralized bureaucracy is more pervasive than ever in the U.S.S.R. The present leaders have refined and extended the quintessentially Soviet notion of nomenklatura (nomenclature). That is, the Communist Party leadership prerogative to dispense patronage and designate virtually every important manager in every sector of society-from industry to academe, from culture to science, from the customs service to the diplomatic corps. The result, concludes Historian Billington, is "bureaucratic state socialism," in which the party has a permanent monopoly on power...