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According to Thompson, there are very few faculty members who violate the time constraint. And so the University's recent move to clarify its rules has left many wondering why a crackdown is necessary...
...grown over the past year, less because of Maoist nostalgia than out of concern that its immediate consequences - massive unemployment with no social safety net - will provoke widespread unrest that could undermine Beijing's grip on power. It was the same concern to maintain order that drove the crackdown last year on the Falun Gong religious sect, which while it had no obvious political agenda represented an independent nationwide organization that the communist leadership found threatening. So while WTO membership will formally commit Beijing to open up large sectors of its economy to foreign competition, the realities of implementation...
...From time to time the faculty has discussed grade inflation, but I have not heard about teaching fellows being told to 'crackdown on grade inflation,'" Lewis says. "I think that I might have heard if such directives were being issued in Core courses...
...would be difficult to say that we have participated in a 'crackdown' of grade inflation in the last few years," she says...
...October 1998, Massachusetts securities authorities ruled that H.J. Meyers had engaged in fraudulent and unethical practices. They revoked the broker-dealer registrations of the firm, Villa and four of his associates. Shortly before the crackdown, H.J. Meyers closed its doors, and in November 1998 Villa packed up and headed for Florida and its generous homestead exemption. He left behind a countryside littered with investors who had lost money, including some whose retirement savings had disappeared. Some of the unlucky H.J. Meyers clients took their cases to arbitration, won awards and filed claims in Villa's bankruptcy case...