Word: credited
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...committee begin formulating a new program of urban studies, and further, that the school establish a new "criterion of intellectual vigor." Specifically, the authors felt that students interested in field work should be encouraged to work with community educational agencies and other educational groups and should be given credit and supervision. Professors had long resisted this suggestion. They argued that stressing practical experience would turn the school into a "technical training factory." The report retorted that practical work is not mindless, and anyway, that the goal should be a balance between the academic and the active...
Much of the credit for saving the redwoods belongs to the California-based Sierra Club and San Francisco's Save-the-Redwoods League, which was founded 50 years ago. Creation of the park comes none too soon. At the present rate of logging, the virgin stands of redwoods would last only another 20 years, a mere second in the lives of trees that were swaying in the Pacific breeze when Christ was born...
...first professional role). Cassavetes' hand-held cameras move from closeup to unsparing closeup with the agility of a spectator's shifting eye-a spectator, moreover, who must constantly feel that he is committing an invasion of privacy. It is to the film's credit that Faces evokes a slight sense of guilt: the viewer keeps watching, even when he ought to avert his eyes...
...real issue--ROTC's peculiarly privileged status at Harvard--has not been touched. Why should students be given academic credit for pre-professional military training? Last year's faculty evaluation of the curriculum glossed over that question, and it is one that this year the Faculty ought to answer...
Once again, the central bankers of Western nations rallied last week to support the pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...