Word: dispelled
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Many students are now wondering whether administrators may be "misleading" them on other aspects of the housing process. Therefore, the Administration must not only remedy what is at least the potential for manipulation, but dispel these student suspicions. The House assignments, if they are still to be done manually, should be witnessed by members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. CHUL overseers would prevent any more "mistakes," the more suspicion of which has undermined the integrity of this supposedly random process and the deans associated with...
Sometimes works of art are reported stolen to order for connoisseurs. But experts at the Delaware conference said that art thieves usually are not specialists. Rather, they are the same sort of criminals who steal automobiles, TV sets and jewelry. "Let me dispel some myths," said Gilbert Raguideau, a French government expert on the subject. "There is no mastermind, no international art Mafia. We all have heard the legend of the mad, rich connoisseur who buys stolen masterworks. He does not exist." The works are sold to frequently unsuspecting collectors in the U.S. and abroad through dealers who care more...
...pained reaction of Alfred Kahn, the Administration's chief price fighter, to the latest inflationary onslaughts. A month after President Carter mounted Stage II in his anti-inflation campaign, prices continue to rise and skepticism about the program's punch continues to spread. Trying to dispel some of the uncertainty, an unsmiling President declared on national television last week: "I think we will be successful in leveling off the rate of inflation and then bringing it down." But, he added, "I'm beginning to see more and more clearly how difficult it will...
Fouquet appears incorrect in extending this example to the larger question of how ACSR members can advocate majority rule in South Africa when they do not approve of democracy at Harvard. Nonetheless, the example seems to dispel any illusions that the ACSR is accountable to the Harvard community...
South Africa said it will "retain authority" on the current vote until after the U.N. supervised election, a move designed to dispel fears that the winners of this election might block further voting...