Word: extended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still fails to address the exam problem and the inconvenience of trying to compete for summer jobs with students who finish school in early May. (Heaven forbid that Yale do something right, and a lightening bolt plus two divine interventions should Harvard ever admit it.) Harvard's professors should extend themselves a little more for their students, and moving the college's starting date back to early September would help immeasurably. Of course, I've heard that the green flies of Maine are much less ferocious in September than June, and the Science Center isn't about to displace Bermuda...
...cause its accountants to raise a gingerly question as to whether it could stay in business. Actually, the company has reduced its debt and break-even point so greatly that no one expects it to go under. Nonetheless, A.M.C., pleading poverty, last week asked the United Auto Workers to extend its contract until Sept. 16, rather than shooting for a wage boost...
Profitable Empire. Nonetheless, the left-wing fury is understandable. The Labor government came to power pledged to extend nationalization of basic industries; now it will be surrendering a large chunk of perhaps the most profitable investment any British government has ever made. FORTUNE ranks BP fifth among the seven international oil companies?the so-called Seven Sisters ?with sales in 1975 of $17 billion. From London, Chairman David Steel, an affable Oxford-educated lawyer who is a tough negotiator, oversees a global empire. It embraces more than 650 production, refining and marketing subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, was serenely explaining why he was opposed to recombinant DNA research. Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci was churlish, peeved that his proposal to extend the research ban another 90 days had failed, although a compromise measure--a 30 day ban--was agreed upon. The only person with a real reason to be pleased with himself at the special Cambridge City Council meeting Wednesday night was Daniel J. Hayes...
Pete Carril's squad is looking to extend an eleven game win streak over Harvard Friday night and is the team to beat in the Ivies...