Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than any other businessmen in Europe, Alsatian businessmen know that their prosperity is hinged to European unity, give Charles de Gaulle's attempt to disrupt the Common Market no support. Says Jean Wenger-Valentin, president of the Industrial Credit Bank of Alsace and Lorraine: "We are all true Europeans here." Amid all the bustle and renewal, one ancient Alsatian industry has survived almost unchanged: sturdy farm hands still hand stuff the gullets of Strasbourg's shiny geese, which produce Europe's best pate de foie gras...
...will come into play. The improvement in Britain's balance of payments has resulted from special restrictions--the import surcharge and tax measures--which are decreasing in effectiveness. To generate further improvements, the government has embarked on a policy of deflation--cutting public investment and tightening the credit squeeze. But even if this policy temporarily spurs exports by making British goods more competitive on world markets, it will not deal with the real cause of Britain's economic dislocation: the failure of British industry to keep pace with with other countries in raising productivity...
Certainly to exclude all present upper-level courses from being counted for Gen Ed course credit would be to fly in the face of all logic. These courses are presently distinguished from lower-level courses by being smaller, designed for upperclassmen, for the most part, half-courses. But the Faculty has now decided that General Education can be postponed until a student's upperclass years; and that it can be administered in small courses (Nat Sci 1 has only a handful of people in it and even Hem 4 is smaller than many upper-level courses). We see no reason...
Upper-level courses that are otherwise qualified as Gen Ed courses should count for Gen Ed course credit. It has been suggested that to count such courses would be to open the gates for basically unsuitable offerings, but the General Education Committee is capable of preventing this. Accepting some of the present upper-level courses (and many are well-qualified) does not mean accepting all of them...
...delegate to the Committee on General Education the power of interpreting a very loosely worded program. The Committee should not be hamstrung by an insistence on retaining a concept of the present Gen Ed program when this idea tends to exclude qualified courses from being counted for Gen Ed credit...