Word: acquaint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOVE next to the student role in decision-making at the departmental level. Shortly after the creation of our committee, we requested department chairmen to acquaint us with their experience in this area. Their responses revealed a wide range of differing practices. Without undertaking a detailed description of these arrangements department by department, it may be useful to summarize the general categories into which they fall. In the case of a number of very small departments, no formal procedures for consultation with students exist, nor do they appear to be necessary. As one chairman of such a department noted...
...With the possibility of Cliffies living in the Houses in the near future," Peter D. Lennon '70, chairman of the Winthrop House Committee, said yesterday, "we need to acquaint them with the different functions of Masters and tutors in the Houses and a multitude of features not in Radcliffe dorms...
...funds in the amount of $25,000 were set aside to assist the effort. Other funds were provided to aid members of the faculty to travel to southern colleges, and to other places where their help had been requested with urban problems, where they might have a change to acquaint disadvantaged students with the nature, opportunities and challenges of the design profession...
...York City detectives, under the auspices of the First National City Bank, conducted a fraud clinic to acquaint merchants with ways of cutting their losses. Similar campaigns have been launched by retail associations from Georgia to Texas. Chicago retailers have urged the courts to take a tougher stand against shoplifters, asking for higher bond, fewer continuances and stiffer fines and sentences. Penalties already run as high as $10,000 and ten years in jail, but teen-age first offenders often get off with merely a reprimand...
...overwhelmed by the inter est foreign investors have shown in our country," said Surjo Sediono, a high of ficial of Indonesia's Foreign Investment Board. He describes 1967 as the "year of promotion," when Indonesians and potential foreign investors got acquaint ed, both in Djakarta and in Geneva, at a conference sponsored by Time Inc. last November. Courting private cap ital, the new regime has returned virtu ally all foreign properties seized by Sukarno, promised tax holidays and easy repatriation of profits to all newcomers...