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...another aspect of liberation. The Good News must preserve all of its own originality: that of a God who saves us from sin and death and brings us to divine life. Hence human advancement [and] social progress [are] not to be excessively emphasized on the temporal level to the detriment of the announcement of the Good News...
...showers for early today. All that rain could produce a muddy field for today's encounter. However, the poor conditions might help Harvard more than Tufts. The Crimson relies on a "fast break" offense which involves the use of long passes. A muddy field would be more of a detriment to a short passing game, which is more of the sort that Tufts employs...
...Harvard Faculty has opposed the student access bill since its passage last May. Steiner said at that time that the bill was "too widely written" and would "work to the detriment of students." The Harvard Faculty Council plans to issue its own plans for granting student access to files later this week...
Almost alone in the cacophony, private economists at two minisummits of their own blew a very certain trumpet summoning the Government to attack the myriad federal laws and regulations that already benefit special interests - including portions of the Government itself - to the detriment of anti-inflationary policy. The economists denounced such contrivances as methods of restricting competition, propping wages at high levels and sustaining lofty prices for oil, ship ping, meat, even uranium for nuclear power plants. If the more invidious pieces of tailored legislation were repealed or amended, suggested Harvard Economist Hendrik S. Houthakker, the nation's entire...
...Bonn is both refreshing and a little startling to many Europeans. Indeed, the Giscard-Schmidt friendship has caused a certain amount of anxiety among some EEC members, who fear that the Community's two most powerful representatives could gang up to promote their own interests to the detriment of the smaller countries. Those fears may have been somewhat premature. Last week Bonn shocked the EEC-as well as Paris and the powerful French farm lobby-by rejecting a previously agreed upon 5% hike in Common Market farm prices. Nonetheless, there is still a good deal of hope that these...