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Recently Harvard's biggest gains have come in the federal sector--a welcome, if uncertain, windfall. A Congress intent on budget-cutting could slash aid to education any time and administrators remain wary of relying heavily on the federal funds. But for this year, the Middle Income Student Assistance Act that Congress passed in October 1978 should double both grants to students and federal work-study projects at Harvard. As R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the office of fiscal services, says, "it's the biggest increase for federal aid to education ever--you can't knock that...
...next, he is more apt to shrug and say, "I guess I'll go to business school." As President Bok says in his annual report this year, treating the B-School, "Before long, a business education will rival legal training as an outlet for ambitious students of uncertain vocation, since everyone who aspires to 'take charge' and 'run something' will perceive that a business degree offers a path-way to manage any complex organization from a company to a hospital to a government...
...narrow Tory margin suggested that Canadian voters were tired of Trudeau but uncertain about Clark's ability to handle the country's problems. The economy has gone slack; inflation is nearly 10%, and unemployment hovers...
...intervene. The U.S. spends some $80 million a year on this effort, and the fetal death rate in the U.S. has in fact declined since electronic monitoring was introduced in the mid-1960s, but there is little evidence linking the two. Moreover, critics say that the benefits are uncertain and that there is risk to the baby of laceration and infection of the scalp and respiratory problems, and to the mother of uterine perforation, pelvic infections and an unnecessary Caesarean section should the monitoring mistakenly indicate the baby is in distress...
What most people at the conference agreed upon was that the debate over antitrust will continue and intensify-unsettled, and unsettling to the nation. Yet if so much is uncertain, perhaps the U.S. should be cautious about enacting new laws. In short: If you don't know, go slow...