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With the Reagan Administration about to launch the biggest peacetime defense buildup in U.S. history, the skilled labor shortage threatens to create crippling and inflationary production bottlenecks. Without experienced workers, there is no way to shape and mold the thousands of metal parts that go into fighter planes and new...
For some companies the squeeze is already serious. Condec Corp. of Old Greenwich, Conn. (1980 sales: $275 million), is a leading supplier of parts for the U.S. Army's 155-mm Howitzer field gun, makes components for the cruise missile, and is the world's leading producer of...
Many big manufacturing firms have been counting on so-called cad/cam systems (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) to ease the skills squeeze. These computer-controlled machines do everything from preparing a three-dimensional blueprint to selecting the proper drill bit to bore a metal part. Unfortunately, the nation...
Since the University made headlines last fall with a proposal for joining one of its faculty members in sponsoring a commercial genetic research concern, Harvard has become closely associated with the scramble to squeeze profits from exotic biomedical innovations. The two most recent agreements with Du Pont and the German...
Recognizing the fact that the Houses and other buildings are in disrepair, College administrators have nevertheless been limited in what they can do. Faced with a College-wide budgetary squeeze and pressure to keep annual tuition as low as possible, administrators have deferred maintainance on the Houses and buildings, doing...