Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would appear, is on the developers' side. Under the state constitution, cities that require special building permits must in turn grant density bonuses or other forms of zoning relief, something the current proposed fail to do. The city solicitor office issued a report last week recommending a vote against the amendments on the grounds that they will embroil the city in a host or lawsuits. Supporters of the bills contend, however, that increases in density would arouse the opposition of neighborhood groups worried about the quality of life in their areas...
...social focal point, causing students on the periphery to feel alienated in their own Houses which was originally designed to provide a familial center of identification. Opponents to the random or modified random system say group identification in Houses would be destroyed by such a change. Yet they fail to realize that while people can always find some friends in the 350-or-more-person Houses,' smaller groups of people often feel shoved to the outer parameters of the social milieu dominated by a strong central group on which the reputation is founded. In addition, the random system's opponents...
...random lottery will not only fail to solve the fundamental problem, that concerning the Quad Houses, but it will also drain the Houses of much of their existing character. The diversity the pro-random forces so crave is already here, just not at every dinner table. Letting people choose where they want to live makes residential dorms not just houses but homes...
...handbook also states, "The Administrative Board considers students' petitions for changes of grading status (that is, from letter-graded to pass fail) and petitions for retroactive withdrawals from courses...
...large budget deficits is to increase the risk of an inflationary monetary policy. We already hear occasional calls for an easier monetary policy that its advocates incorrectly claim will stimulate growth, increase tax revenue and reduce future deficits. But experience shows that an excessive monetary expansion would not only fail to achieve an increase in growth or a sustained reduction in real interest rates but would instead cause a rise in the rate of inflation...