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...Alberta Arthurs, Radcliffe dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday that 3350 women have applied to Radcliffe, a 6.5-per-cent increase over last year...
...Alberta Arthurs, dean of admissions and financial aid at Radcliffe, echoed Jewett's statement. There have been no plans to change the Radcliffe application, she said; SAT scores are still considered an important piece of information...
...over in the future, the company will still profit by shipping, refining and marketing the oil. To prepare for the day when conventional wells can no longer meet the world's needs, Exxon is already experimentally squeezing oil out of Rocky Mountain shale and the tar sands of northern Alberta...
...Jamieson is a product of the rough-and-tumble earlier days of the Canadian oil business. His father, now 96, is the oldest living veteran of the North West Mounted Police. Jamieson, 63, was born in Medicine Hat, then a frontier outpost on Alberta's bleak prairie with a population of 5,600. Once he shot a bear that wandered too close to the family domicile. He went to the University of Alberta, but determined to become an engineer, transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Depression-struck Alberta in 1931, he took any work...
...British North America Act, Canada's constitution, allows provinces to retain control of their natural resources. People in Alberta and Saskatchewan commonly believe that they, not the federal government, should choose the markets and collect the taxes on oil pumped from the vast reserves within their borders. Easterners and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's government maintain that the oil is a national treasure and that its sale abroad should be controlled and taxed by the federal government. The U.S. is the third party with an interest in the dispute; last year an average 1.2 million...