Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the important changes are aimed at improving the method of passing resolutions, which the Student Council listed as one of its major objections. By limiting to 25 the number of resolutions introduced and lengthening to three days the plenary session at which these are considered, the Committee feels that each resolution will have adequate discussion. Previously as many as 120 resolutions have been passed in a two-day session...
Henry said that Harvard's influence on these decisions came from two sources: the Council majority report on NSA, and personal discussion with members of the Executive Committee by Lewis B. Oliver '61, concerning the report. Oliver was not acting as an official representative of the Student Council...
...enormous social security fund (current reserves: $22 billion) really secure between the time the wage earner is nibbled and the time he begins to get his payments? Yes, reported a Congress-created advisory council on social security financing, a panel of 13 businessmen, labor leaders, university professors and insurance actuaries. Their summary: the financing of the Old Age and Survivors' Insurance system is "sound, practical and appropriate...
...council's arithmetic, the future bite schedule enacted by Congress last year-providing for a gradual increase to 4½% of the first $4,800 of income by 1969-"makes adequate provision" for estimated future payments. This year OASI will pay out $9.7 billion, around $1 billion more than it takes in, but it will still have nearly $21 billion in the kitty, and from 1960 on, income is expected to exceed outgo "every year for many years into the future." The advisory council's real worry is that creeping inflation might make the payments worth disappointingly little...
...their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a capital of doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched an S O S to India...