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Word: allowances (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommended that the program Harvard adopts should: Enable a large number of Harvard students to go abroad; Allow students to transfer their financial aid to a foreign study program; Place students in a foreign environment, as opposed to what Brown described as "American universities abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERG Proposes Foreign Study | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...administration revoked permission Thursday to allow a Christian group called "MIT Seekers" to sponsor a Purim celebration in cooperation with "Jews for Jesus," a group of Christian Jews based in New York. The administration cancelled the celebration in response to complaints from MIT Hillel, a Jewish group, and students and faculty who criticized "Jews for Jesus," Giffone said. Hillel called the group a "proselytising organization" which does not belong at MIT, Rabbi Dan Shevitz, director of MIT Hillel, said Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIT Bars 'Jews for Jesus' Ceremony | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...allow today's politicians to call a second constitutional convention [Feb. 19] would be like doing a remake of Gone With the Wind with Woody Allen as Rhett and Phyllis Diller as Scarlett. Not only is the casting inappropriate, but it would ruin a masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...Tuesday, Happy Days leads into Laverne & Shirley, which is followed by Three's Company and Taxi. Wednesday is a night for everybody: Eight Is Enough, the quintessential family show, introduces Charlie's Angels and Vega$, both of which unveil as much skin as the network censors will allow. On Thursday, Mork & Mindy is already so strong that it gave Angie, the show that now follows it, a 41 share of the audience on its premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos in Television | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...planned what kinds of programs we were going to put on and the amount of lead time we were going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Talking Heads: A Triptych of Network Chiefs on Thrust, Appeal, Consensus, Risks, Holes, Fun, Meaning and . . . | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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