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Harvard has always had a unique relationship with the state. Dating back almost to the first-colonial settlements, the University has been accorded privileges no other institution enjoys. The earliest version of the Massachusetts constitution protected, the Yard from state intrusion, and despite several attempts to amend the document the provision is still in effect...
What's more, the reasoning behind the campaign to amend the act is spacious. The union of Republicans and industrial state Democrats who support the changes in the act contend it will stimulate the economy and create jobs. Yet this seems merely a smokescreen to salvage ailing and uncompetitive industries, the legislators and bureaucrats who favor the changes are ignoring recent reports which demonstrate that regulation creates more hobs than it eliminates...
Vellucci's repeated wobbling on the Linnaean and Washington case shows just how his tightrope stance hurts both tenants and would-be condo owners cross the city. By first signalling that he would make exemptions to the condo codes, then refusing to amend them, and then moving again to loosen the regulations. Vellucci generates fear on the one hand in tenants who could lose their apartments to condo conversion and raises false hopes on the other in condo investors...
Congressmen can oppose further cuts in education at three points in the coming months. At the end of March they can vote to continue the "continuing resolution" passed last year in the absence of agreement on the 1982 fiscal budget; by July 1 they can vote to amend the parts of the whole budget which deal with student aid; between now and Labor Day they can vote against changing the authorization laws to but all graduates and professional students from participation in the GSL programs
That wives may amend their lives properly. Molloy offers a quiz for executive wives, including such vital points as: "6 I shop for my clothing at the same stores as the wives of my husband's co-workers,"..."11 I immediately spot someone with poor table manners,"..."12 Although most of the homes in my area are in the same price category. I can immediately tell when I walk in the door whether the people who live there are professionals and executives." Molloy tells women who answered all 16 questions in the affirmative to congratulate themselves, and all who answered...