Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most disturbing implication of the government's growing insistence on effort reporting is the possibility that it may some day adopt a meaningful method -- as opposed to the present procedure -- of making Faculty members account to the Federal bureaucracy for their time. The assumption that government control of its research funds extends to the working habits of researchers is dangerous and open-ended...
Many representatives felt that the decision was a holding action. The ECAC would like to have financial need established nation-wide as the only basis for granting aid and it is just waiting for the NCAA to adopt the policy the ECAC wants...
...Government Department, which initiated the move toward ungraded senior tutorials, awarded exactly the same grade on thesis and tutorial last year. Departments with a similar system, such as the Economics Department, should adopt the new program to protect their students from double jeopardy grading. But other departments, without a comparable thesis-tutorial structure, apparently will have to wait until the trend away from grades finds its logical conclusion--no grades...
...Romney absolved Goldwater of personal blame for the 1964 convention's failure to adopt a strong civil rights plank-but at the same time damned him as an indifferent campaigner. He recalled how the G.O.P. standard-bearer had admitted to him that he, Goldwater, "read only a few sections of the platform and didn't know what amendments were being offered"-incredible as that seems. He also exonerated Goldwater of making a "deal" with Southern segregationists because "you were obviously leaving many vital things almost entirely to others...
...Cambridge School Committee voted 4-2 last night to adopt a policy that gives University officials the major responsibility for approving controversial student-sponsored speeches in public school auditoriums...