Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the anti-rent control Small Property Owners Association, who have picketed City Council meetings for several weeks with signs urging support for Proposition 1-2-3--a ballot referendum to allow some tenants in rentcontrolled housing to purchase their apartments--and opposition to the CCA, this week had a new sign. "Hypocrisy doesn't end with the Commonwealth Day School," it read...
This argument fails to consider that intelligence, the primary characteristic by which Harvard judges its applicants, is probably more arbitrary, more innate and less under our control than personality traits. Yet the staff does not call for the dissolution of selective educational institutions in favor of an egalitarian public system. Morever, most Americans don't find the existence of such elitist associations as country clubs especially objectionable...
These challenges include implementing a plan, agreed on in principle by HUCTW and the University, to decentralize the personnel management system at Harvard so that local offices have more control and assuring that Harvard's salaries are competitive in the Cambridge market...
...Membership clubs in which the members do not hold club property or otherwise do not have exclusive control over the government and activities of the organization cannot claim to be private," the response states. Because the club property is held by a trust controlled by non-member, graduate trustees and the government of the club consists of 14 graduate members and two present members of the Fly, the document alleges that it cannot claim to be a solely undergraduate organization...
...will never control the use of illicit drugs or the abuse of alcohol among this age group if we do not take the fundamental--though perhaps politically unpopular--step of encouraging colleges and universities to adopt policies on campus alcohol advertising and alcohol industry sponsorship of college activities, "Bingaman said Tuesday...