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...Austin Report may or may not conform to Bok's own beliefs about investment policy, but it clearly did not jive with Bok's method of handling a political crisis. And the report's chief proponent, Bennett, while a good financial manager, undoubtedly did not jive either. He voted against nearly all of the resolutions considered this Spring by Bok's pet committee, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilities, a body formed in the aftermath of Mass Hall to aid the Corporation in deciding how to vote Harvard's proxies...
Because Horner conceives of Harvard and Radcliffe students as members of a single undergraduate body, she cites as one of this year's major accomplishments efforts to make the housing system conform to the guidelines set by the 1971 agreement...
...least bit interested in training professional artists. The new center was not going to be an arts or craft hall for ceramicists and weavers. It was not going to provide the opportunity for students to work at a variety of hobbies. Rather it would serve to make art conform to Harvard's intellectual standards...
...University Benefits Committee developed the new program to conform to last year's sweeping revision of the Social Security Act. The new act lifted the pension floor, increased the salary base on which both employers and employees were being assessed and provided a cost of living clause for all beneficiaries...
...banned 60 foreign and domestic magazines-including Playboy, Penthouse, Lui and, curiously, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel-because they offended "morality and proper behavior" by exploiting erotic themes. The decree also provided that all magazines circulating in Brazil must henceforth submit copies to police censors to determine whether they conform to government standards. If the journals are not approved, the distribution of all future issues will be held up for inspection by the smut hounds...