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...index fell 0.5 per cent in December, the same decline as in November, a spokesman for the department said Wednesday. Economists have often interpreted a three-month decline in the index as one sign of economic downturn...
...number of students getting medical excuses from midyear exams jumped 14 per cent from last year, administrators at the University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday...
...People have more of an attitude that they have to be in 100 per cent shape to take an exam than they used to have," Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday. "A few years ago, they would have gritted their teeth and taken the tests," he said...
...help him. And it is not that easy to gain entrance to the university. There is much discrimination. Many students from the country cannot attend the university. Take Moscow University, for example. The percentage of people from the villages who go there is one half of one per cent. The students are mainly from Moscow. It is the same for other schools. For Jewish people it is impossible to go to the university. We have examinations and Jews are put in special groups. Examinations are much harder on Jews than other people. When an examiner sees you are Jewish...
Close to 20 per cent of Harvard undergraduates--an increase of 3- to 5- per cent over last year--will not be allowed to register immediately today because they have not paid their term bills...