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...three students, selected to represent Harvard because of their performance on last year's exam, competed as individuals along with 44 other Harvard undergraduates and a total of 2,076 students from 348 institutions...
...Putnam Mathematical Competition, open to college students in the U.S. and Canada, is a six-hour exam "constructed to test originality as well as technical competence," according to a release from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), which administers the exam...
...whether students would support pre-Christmas exams if the school year began earlier and reading and exam periods were shortened...
...efforts has been mixed. Unions generally support corporate drug-rehabilitation programs, but opposition to urinalysis is growing. Says Douglas Maguire, director of the labor assistance program for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO: "Labor is not supporting testing in the workplace. As part of a physical exam for new employees, it is acceptable, but otherwise there are problems of violating civil rights." Some unions also fight against firings of workers with drug problems. Rockwell's Frankel quit as the company's medical director in 1983 partly because, he says, management repeatedly gave in to union demands that...
...referendum will ask students whether they would approve of starting the school year three weeks earlier and shorten reading period to one week, or shorten exam period to one week or shorten both to a week and a half. In addition to this barrage of choices, representatives propose amending the referendum to include the option of starting school two weeks early and limiting both reading and exam period to a week apiece. Council members seem to understand the options...