Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strike both because his future is on the line and because the strike could have disastrous implications for the future of B.U.A prolonged strike would scare students away, and the university--a private institution with a small endowment whose students are its lifeblood--can ill afford a drop in enrollment. Droves of alumni have been flocking to Silber's door warning that unless he contains the strike they will pull their sons and daughters from the university and will refuse to contribute to fund drives...
...Faculty--including a vote of "no special privileges" for ROTC on campus, and a decision to allow student participation in decision-making in the Afro-American Studies Department--satisfied enough of the moderates. Harvard also pledged to build 1100 low-and middle-income housing units in Boston, and to drop all criminal charges against the University Hall demonstrators...
...after-effects of the strike lingered. Judge Edward O. Viola '50 refused to let Harvard drop charges; 170 students were convicted of criminal trespass, and fined $20 each. The Committee of 15, a group set up to determine academic punishment for the demonstrators, required 13 students to with-draw, and recommended to the Faculty that it "dismiss" three others. In addition, 20 students received "suspended suspensions," and 99 others were placed on warning. The Committee of 15 gave way to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, another disciplinary panel that has been the focus of an almost continuous student boycott...
...slightest hint of trouble, the reactor's computer is programmed to drop the control rods back into the core. That curtails the core's chain reaction, but heat is still given off. If the core's temperature rises precipitously as a result of the problem, possibly a loss of cooling fluid (a "blowdown"), the computer will activate an emergency core cooling system. That system should quickly dump thousands of gallons of water on the hot core, preventing what has become known as a "meltdown," in which the fuel melts through the floor of the containment building into...
Even harder hit would be Aroostook County, Me., a depressed potato-farming area, where a reduction of Loring Air Force Base to a forward operating station would cause the loss of 2,780 jobs. The state's congressional delegation claims that move would produce a $22 million drop in retail sales and a surge in unemployment from 11% to about 20%. Says Abraham Etscovitz, who owns an automobile dealership in nearby Caribou: "We're going to pray...