Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to take at least one building out of the housing market, ordering tenants evicted so it could be converted to office space. They have also angered some Cantabrigians by buying up property around the city, and by announcing a plan, known as "The Cambridge Option" designed to allow faculty members to purchase homes in the city at much lower interest rates than those available on the open market. Officials including City Councilor Francis A. Duehay '55 complain the plan will drive up property values and drive out non-Harvard prospective buyers...
...took on a financial burden that soon will total at least $40,000. If present trends continue, more than half Harvard's students will not be able to pay the full amount and will receive some form of aid. Harvard has continued to marshal its considerable internal resources to allow all qualified students to attend the University. These days, however, Harvard is increasingly looking to the federal government to reduce the importance of money in determining the company of educated...
Within the framework of its financial aid operations, Harvard operates the Parent Loan Plan (PLP), begun with the Class of '80 which helps students with family incomes ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. The plan uses a variety of loans, grants and student work opportunities to allow parents to pay off their debts to Harvard in eight years of monthly installments. Administrators say the plan has increased the yield--the number of accepted students who actually attend--of middle-income students. Before the PLP the yield among students in this range was about ten percentage points lower than other...
...unconstitutional "preferential" balloting system similar to the system used in Cambridge City Council elections. Several candidates in Currier House claimed that other candidates were loitering near the ballot boxes soliciting votes. Lowell House's ballots were misprinted, and the Kirkland House elections were delayed more than a week to allow time for more nominations...
...introduced by Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, another by Democratic Representative Richardson Preyer of North Carolina, and a third on behalf of the White House. All three measures cover mainly institutional records, not those kept by doctors in their private offices. Also, they would continue to allow release of information for such worthy scientific purposes as inquiries into the effectiveness of a particular drug on the course of a disease. But they would prohibit the kind of blanket, open-ended authorizations that are contained in the any-and-all forms. What is more, the patient...