Word: favorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wake of the Faculty's 182-65 vote in favor of the Core, it is incumbent upon the Standing Committees on the Core, which will be formed over the summer, to use their enormous powers of discretion to make the Core courses as palatable as possible. Finally, it is imperative that the Faculty not feel that its efforts for reform of undergraduate education are terminated for the decade, now that the Core is a reality. Notoriously problematic areas of concern remain, including tutorials, student-faculty contact, advising, and alternate concentrations. The Core addresses only a small part of undergraduate education...
Harvard has lobbied hard in favor of the middle income assistance program, says Thomas R. Wolanin of the House Select Committee on Post-Secondary Education. R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of Harvard's office of Fiscal Services, has made frequent trips to the Capitol. "Gibson has been helping our staff devise a bill that technically does the right thing; he's really one of the national experts on student loans," Wolanin says...
Applicants to medical schools from southern schools and local city colleges are often overlooked by most medical schools, Poussaint said. Race, class and geographic location of applicants are all important factors in the admissions process, but admissions committees often tend to overlook minorities and disadvantaged students in favor of students from traditional institutions, he added...
Moreover, Washington is in a highly delicate phase of its Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the U.S.S.R. Any strong statement from Carter in favor of disarmament might have offered Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko an opening to press for U.S. concessions in the latest round of SALT discussions between him and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
Government is also the largest single buyer of goods and services, says Weidenbaum, and it is about as cost conscious as a Saudi prince in Beverly Hills. Instead of buying from the lowest bidder or the best supplier, Government agencies and contractors are required to favor small businesses and suppliers in high-unemployment areas. That policy may or may not have social benefits, but it surely hypes inflation and discriminates against bigger companies...