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...timing of the trip could hardly have been better since it coincided with the President's announcement of Phase II of his economic program. Given the current international trade and monetary crisis, our visitors engaged in lively debate with U.S. officials. While our primary purpose was to acquaint our guests with U.S. problems and policies, we like to think that the important Americans they met also found it useful to hear the questions and concerns of the Europeans...
...This is intended to acquaint people from other campuses with SDS and the type of thing that the Harvard chapter has been doing." he said...
...N.A.A.C.P. and the United Black Protest Committee and agreed to employ up to 30% blacks in its city stores as well as 15% in the suburbs. Sears further pledged to conduct a black recruiting program, promote deserving blacks to management jobs and provide "sensitivity training" for all employees to acquaint them with the black workers' point of view. Beyond that, Sears will consider preferential buying for black-manufactured goods and encourage equal employment among firms with which it deals...
This year, Harvard is offering 46 freshman seminars, which aim at giving students the advantage of close contact with Faculty members, and 37 lower-level General Education which, to a greater or lesser degree, try to acquaint students with the basic concepts and the nature of the intellectual problems of the humanities and the natural and social sciences...
...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...