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However, the Coop in recent years has expanded into some areas of little interest to students. Some critics contend that the selling of such products as housewares, major appliances and expensive cameras and the refurbishing and rental of commercial space on Bow St. are not enterprises in which the Coop should be involved...
Opponents of the CRA proposal contend that there is a conflict interest in the consultants the renewal agency hired. The head of Gladstone Associates, the planning consultant, is also a trustee of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, a Boston developer of neighboring Tech Square, the value of which stands to be enhanced by development in the Kendall area...
...pledged a commitment to the increased hiring of women and minority group members at all levels in the Administration, faculties, and among salary-and-wage employees, it has also proposed that their numbers grow by less that 1 per cent in the coming two years. The University cannot seriously contend that such token statistical increases represent affirmative action that will eventually lead to truly equal employment...
...honors departments--History and Literature, History and Science, and Social Studies--are also a bird of a different feather, primarily because they demand more of their students in terms of the variety of requirements. These fields limit the number of concentrators and contend that they provide more rigorous training, and, therefore, one would expect some consistency in the number of summas and magnas they award. But the departments show little statistical consistency in the granting of honors...
...unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces in Europe, and of continued delays in the already overdue reform of the monetary system, to bludgeon the Europeans into making concessions on trade and balance of payments matters. Nixon has stressed that he has no intention of pulling out troops; but he does contend that the Common Market should reduce its tariffs and other barriers to U.S. products...