The journals are being flooded with submissions and acceptances. As the number of acceptances increases, so does the cost of publications. Thus, anticipate a requirement for shortened manuscripts and more publication being sent in electronic form. There were 80,000 pp. of electronic publications on the WWW and Gopher last year. Your opinions on this subject are really important.
Abstracts is now in the hands of a business based committee.
The task force report on graduate schools will be out soon. It finds that there are too many institutions at this particular time, but not if the economy turns around. Moreover, reducing the number of small programs would have negligible effect since the large student producers are enormous. In addition, the benefit to the faculty and the institutions with small programs is significant and far outweighs the desired effects from reducing the number of programs. Further, there is no way for the ACS to do it.