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Louise Reid '73 said, "I don't want any guys as officers over here. Radcliffe government is the only place where girls have any chance at all to be officers. When government goes coed the girls will always defer to the guys...
...Faculty voted February 10 to defer any decision on the future relationship between the two schools "until all considerations pro and con and all voices within the two communities have been heard...
...nurse who screened me took my blood pressure and then my pulse, which was racing about at 112 beats per minute. She told me that she would complete the screening but would have to "defer" me unless my pulse fell below 100. Meanwhile. a guy with a slow pulse stood up and started doing jumping jacks. My nurse took blood from my car and dropped it into copper sulfate to see whether I was anemic. Then she asked me 30 questions, including "Have you been exposed to malaria?" When I said I was unsure she told me people...
...interest rate, and must finance the rest of their sales with private loans at 9% or more. Many foreign competitors can borrow all they need from their governments at low rates-and save a crucial 1% or 2% in financing costs. A second measure would allow U.S. corporations to defer income taxes on export profits-so long as the money is reinvested to generate more exports-without setting up a corporation abroad, as the law now requires...
...eliminated a single big problem-not even poverty, which it could eliminate easily. Yet most Americans remain convinced that our individual and societal problems are still basically technical, that science and government will solve them, that they need only keep the radical troublemakers from making more troubles and defer all power to the experts, the men on top who know best. (After all, they've put Americans on the moon.) The technocracy in the United States retains the security of "a grand cultural imperative which is beyond question, beyond discussion." That old spectre, 1984, seems only minutes away...