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...important to distinguish between Gallo and the other 62,000 growers in California," Dan Solomon, a Gallo spokesman, says. "There were problems with the labor contractors at other farms, but Gallo has never used them. If you want to talk about the Gallo boycott, you should talk about Gallo," he says...
...have not, I think, realistically confronted the curricular consequences of our admissions policy. We must learn to distinguish between matriculation and graduation. The basic problem is that our students arrive unevenly--sometimes inadequately--prepared; the variation in their intellectual training is significant. I am not at all disturbed by this fact. To me it is an inevitable consequence of our openness to a large and heterogeneous society. But we should all be disturbed if some of our students graduate with an inadequate education. To ensure that this does not happen, we first need to define a set of standards...
According to several observers, the problem is that many faculty aren't even aware of the school's existence, and the administration's reorganization efforts have failed to distinguish between community education for lower-income working people and enrichment programs for full-time students and degree holders. The Faculty, however, is only indirectly concerned with the school. Outside of approving courses and instructors, primary responsibility is held by Dean Rosovsky...
Much of the relationship between Harvard and the government is a continuing and informal process of consultation; it is hard to distinguish between discussion that go on between professors and government official in a Littauer seminar room or at a scholarly meeting from those that go on where a professor is formally serving as a consultant in a government office...
Foster has produced a disaster magnitude scale that factors in social disruption, physical damage and injuries, as well as deaths. By his criteria, China's earthquake last August rates a 9.0 score, making it the sixth worst disaster he has plotted. Under the Foster Formula, which does not distinguish between disasters wrought by man and those wrought by nature, the top five are World War II (11.1), the Black Death (10.9), World War I (10.5), Stalin's Great Purge of 1936-38 (10.2) and the 1923 earthquake that devastated Tokyo (9.1). Some rankings will come as a surprise...