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Dingman also said the trend may have resulted from the abolition of sex ratios in the five Houses that had them last year.

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Most Freshmen Get Top House Choice | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

Richard Fraiman, the director of Cambridge Property Owners and Taxpayers, called the abolition of rent control "the first step in getting Cambridge's financial house in order."

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Groups Push Bills To End Rent Control | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

On the twelfth anniversary of the death of Mossadegh, the nationalist Prime Minister who forced the Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: You Are Weak, Mister | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

The south remains relatively more prosperous. Women there still wear the brightly colored ao dai, in contrast to the unisex black pants and white shirt commonly worn in the north. Food is somewhat more available but less affordable, since the inflation rate exceeds 100% a year. In general, the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Hard Times for Hanoi | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

The discrimination came when administrators, struggling to find enough women to meet the lower Quad ratios, sent a higher percentage of women to the Quad. Danguole Spakevicius '81, who filed a motion earlier this year with the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) asking for an end to the...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Numbers Game | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

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