Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late last fall, Dean Rosovsky said the Faculty might delay opening the Pusey Library because the Faculty did not have the funds to pay for the library's operating costs...
Since issuing his "Letter to the Faculty on Undergraduate Education" in October, Rosovsky has set up seven "task forces" to research and make recommendations on such issues as concentrations, curriculum requirements, teaching techniques, the composition of the student body and student life outside the classroom. The vacation will delay much of their work, but several of the committees will meet over the summer...
...that the AID compound be restored to American control, but it also required the U.S. to withdraw all American AID personnel and third-country employees of the mission from Laos by the end of this month. After a one-minute filmed signing of the agreement, and a seven-hour delay by the students the next day, the occupation ended. The three Americans, two Marine guards and a civilian who had barricaded themselves inside the compound for a week, emerged tired and worn, but unharmed. "It was one week in hell," said Sergeant Donald E. Wilburn, 26, of Osgood...
...current undergraduates, the job hunt after college will only get harder. Richard Freeman, an associate professor of economics at Harvard, believes that seniors will face a long delay before they find the jobs they want. Says he: "An awful lot of people are going to end up in nonmanagerial, nonprofessional jobs, and the situation is not going to get any better until the 1980s." College enrollments, already dropping as a result of the end of the baby boom, may well begin to fall even faster as students become aware that a college degree is no longer an automatic passport...
Because of the complexities and enormous time delay, says Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, monopoly laws "are only an empty gesture now." Yet few alternatives are in sight. Two reforms suggested by some lawyers and politicians are 1) cutting down on legal battling by giving a tax break to company shareholders if they agree to a Government-sought divestiture; and 2) eliminating antitrust trials entirely by having Congress legislate divestiture for specific industries. Whatever the merits, neither course seems likely of adoption, at least not without a battle as long as a major antitrust trial...