Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform would allow the Assembly to bring the government down only by an absolute majority vote on motions specifically aimed at its fitness, would force the Deputies to face a new election after two such no-confidence votes within a period of 18 months. If such a reform is passed, Mollet has promised...
...College Entrance Examinations Board has voted to allow schools and colleges to divulge the results of their tests to high school students. The new ruling, which will take effect in December 1958, breaks a long tradition of secrecy dating back...
...very far), the whole program should take no more than three years of residence. In the first two years a man should take what courses he needs, and should have all the freedom from prescribed courses for his own individual work that his previous training will allow. At the end of his second year he should take his general examinations. At the end of his third year, he should have completed his thesis...
Acheson also stated that we must not allow "Nehru's and Krishna Menon's talent for annoyance" to blind us to the importance of India. Commenting that their most "trying statements" were for domestic consumption, he supported a plan of "capital assistance on a loan basis." He further suggested that in Asia generally we "use imports of food to help countries through the agricultural stage by freeing farmers for industrial work...
First, several volunteer assignments, such as reading to the blind or certain types of hospital work, have become the "exclusive province" of either Harvard or Radcliffe workers. Under a new system, the opening of formerly restricted jobs will allow greater flexibility in volunteer placement...