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Authored by Associate Registrar Jay A. Halfond and Mather House Senior Tutor Steven A. Epstein, the study once again showed that students gravitate to Houses that conform to perceived stereotypes, causing, for instance, wide disparities in academic performance in the Houses...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: House System | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...department of the University. Every faculty, museum, and department must pass its budget through the Corporation. But again, the Corporation does not examine the budgets solely to make sure all the numbers add up. Every dean and vice president develops a five-year plan, and the budgets must all conform to that plan. "If the faculty comes to us and says it wants two new professors, the first thing we say is 'all right, where's the dough?'" says Francis H. Burr '35, who served on the Corporation for 28 years until...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Keeping Their Hands In | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...publishing manager Fishbein--sees the guide's relatively structured format as a check to overly biased evaluations. The researcher's only opportunity to editorialize is in each section's short introduction. Otherwise, they must conform to the standard, concise division of accommodations, restaurants, sights, and entertainment...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: It's Not Just a Travel Guide, It's an Adventure | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

China has developed a comprehensive policy framework for its strategic weapons program, one that includes a broad-gauged, nuanced deterrence strategy and a declaratory policy on nuclear weapons use, both of which conform to China's perceived national interests, circumstances and resources...

Author: By Richard D. Nethercut, | Title: China and No First Use | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...issue, which must have been in his newspaper by then? Why, further, has Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) resigned in protest at not having been told about the mining? Such a resignation hardly seems an apt way to protest failure on the part of a subsidiary body to conform to rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence committees share information? It seems patently ludicrous that Senator Goldwater should not have known something about the mining if the House knew about it already. And above it all the horrible sphinx, William...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Playing Games | 4/21/1984 | See Source »

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