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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed amendment would allow students to choose between fulfilling the Core requirements or a set of distribution requirements in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Faculty May Vote Today On Core | 5/2/1978 | See Source »

...prospective law student, I was disappointed but not discouraged by what the future holds for lawyers in relation to reputation and ethics. Are lawyers corrupt? Possibly; but only as corrupt as we allow them to be for our own benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1978 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...outlook for 1978 is not much better, despite government moves to salvage basic industries through nationalization, heavy subsidies and blatant protectionism against highly competitive imports. "The best that this will do is allow us to tread water," says Sven Grassman of Stockholm University's Institute of International Economic Studies. Other economists, including some in the government, reject as "rosy" and "naive" official forecasts of positive G.N.P. growth, 10% inflation and at least unchanged unemployment this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sweden's English Disease | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

There's a marvelously funny scene in this cheerful Brazilian comedy-based on a novel by Jorge Amado-that depends for its effect on two social elements that would seldom be found together in a Hollywood or even European movie. One is enough permissiveness to allow the filming of nude actors going vigorously through the motions of sexual intercourse. The other that there is enough strictness and propriety so that the niceties of marital faithfulness and the awful pratfall of cuckoldry matter a great deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knee Slapper | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Walker said John Hopkins will allow him to hire three faculty members to work with him. Harvard had made a similar offer, but since the tenure system is less restrictive at Johns Hopkins he will be able to attract better colleagues, he added...

Author: By Karyn E. Esielonis, | Title: Anthropology Professor Will Leave | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

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