Word: defunction
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...says senior Susan Friedman, who has now replaced Magaziner as Brown's most active reformer, "Brown had stagnated. The student body was passive." Nothing had replaced the defunct IC Courses. Many departments had established restrictive patterns, even specified sequences, of courses for concentrators. Ordinary concentrators usually needed eight courses, honors candidates ten. The distribution requirement was more onerous than ever (two semesters in each of seven general areas, plus another year of intermediate work in an area other than that of the student's concentration). Distribution requirements were still satisfied by taking large, introductory survey courses. All courses were...
Teammate Editor Hills, who learned investigative reporting on Detroit's now defunct Scope magazine, does not hesitate to charge the union with the bombing. Patent nonsense, reply union leaders. "If we were in the business of blowing up places, and we aren't any more," says one official, "we'd have gone for the valuable equipment...
Markus in 1955 bought the nearly defunct Pennsylvania Life Insurance and moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. Using that firm as the major building block, he then formed a parent holding company, Pennsylvania Life Co., which could make acquisitions more easily than an ordinary life insurance company. Pennsylvania Life has expanded to include a mutual fund, Pennsylvania Securities Co., National Central Life Insurance Co. and other insurance firms. Last month Pennsylvania Life joined with H & R Block, Inc., tax consultants, to form a new, jointly owned subsidiary. It will sell mutual funds and insurance to H & R Block clients...
...creation of the new Advisory Committee on Community Affairs implements a major recommendation of the now-defunct Committee on the University and the City, which urged last December that Harvard create a group "to provide a sounding board for evaluating new proposals and a mechanism whereby the various parts of the University can convey their concern" to University officials...
...should be make only minor changes and hope for the best? Yovicsin tried both alternatives at times, and won 5-of-12 games at Harvard with them. This fall with the single wing defunct, things have changed...