Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 70 students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, demanding improvements in housing and meals, occupied the office of Chancellor Randolph Bromery yesterday afternoon and refused to leave...
...students came in kind of a swoop, and burst their way into the office. They sat down, sang some songs, and waited for the chancellor," Clifford said early yesterday evening...
...Swiss francs, v. lows of 1.98 and 1.75 two weeks ago. The rise accelerated at week's end after President Carter announced that U.S. and German officials have been conferring by telephone about concrete new plans for strengthening the dollar; Carter himself chatted with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt for 15 minutes. After weeks of disconcerting sniping between Washington and Bonn, the news of renewed cooperation served notice on money traders that the U.S. and West Germany will probably agree on a joint strategy, presumably involving in the initial stage coordinated buying of dollars to support their price against...
Pragmatically recognizing the key role that capitalist initiative plays in dynamic economies, some ruling socialists have taken steps toward encouraging freer enterprise. Britain's Labor government, for instance, is planning to announce efforts to stimulate individual initiative and investment. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has angered the radical wing of his Social Democratic Party by braking the rate of pension increases and halting the planning of new ambitious welfare schemes, like a costly increase in health benefits. To stop a headlong plunge into bankruptcy, Portugal's Socialist Premier Mario Scares has been uncomfortably forced to restore to private ownership farms...
...tried to persuade West Germany to help spur a worldwide economic recovery by dumping its slow-growth policies in favor of accelerated expansion-and once again the Germans have refused. At a tense three-hour meeting in Bonn, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was lectured last week by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt about the U.S.'s economic "sins." Among the most grievous cited by Schmidt: the absence of a coherent energy program; the U.S.'s huge foreign trade deficit, which stimulates international inflation; and Washington's unconscionable failure to support the sagging dollar...