Word: control
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...focusing on a culture whose concept of freedom includes the right to buy a rifle in a supermarket. But it's not only Europeans -- and others who outlaw the private ownership of weapons -- who lay the blame at the door of America's uniquely libertarian gun laws. Gun control understandably becomes a mantra for Americans seeking to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. After all, many societies face problems of youth violence; while it doesn't address the root causes of that violence, making weapons inaccessible effectively contains the damage. "Youth violence is on the rise across Europe," says TIME...
Davis called for better control of an organization that "puts out nothing, gives nothing, does nothing...
...landmark "non-merger merger" agreement gave Harvard control of Radcliffe's day-to-day operations, including housing female undergraduates. Bunting stepped down the following year...
...replacement, 32-year-old Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Matina S. Horner, presided over a college stripped both of its students and its resources--the 1971 agreement gave Harvard all of the income Radcliffe collected from tuition and its endowment. Radcliffe officials were increasingly unsatisfied with their lack of control. As then-chair of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees Susan S. Lyman '49 said, "When you fold your corporation into another corporation, it's over--you eliminate any power you have...
Under the agreement, Radcliffe preserved its legal independence and regained fiscal control from Harvard. Male and female undergraduates were admitted through a joint Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions, an arrangement that began...