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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's deepest moral problems is that Americans now possess - and take the responsibility for - so little of them selves. Government and other specialists have appropriated too much of their lives. Such an individual sense might help to fill the vacuum of national purpose in which Americans have operated for some time. The exclusive pursuit of the good life does not ultimately add up to much of a raison...
...Recently, however, after reviewing the functioning of the Fund, I discovered that the fund would not actually fill a vacuum," he wrote, adding that "because the College's equal access policy covers foreign as well as American students, the Biko Fund money would actually serve as a substitute for money already forthcoming from the College financial aid office...
This strategy was based upon an assumption that international students were treated substantially differently in the financial aid process than were American students and that a special fund for South African black students would fill a financial vacuum for these students. Recently however, after reviewing the functioning of the Fund. I discovered that the Fund would not actually fill a vacuum. Indeed, because the College's equal access policy covers foreign as well as American students, the Biko Fund money would actually serve as a substitute for money already forthcoming from the College financial aid office. From this realization...
...selection of a scholar to fill the Krupp chair, endowed in the faculty of Arts and Sciences by the family that led the German armaments industry for nearly a century, has been a source of interdepartmental dispute for the past four years, Faculty sources said yesterday...
...Andel, 54, the tall, sandy-haired grandson of an immigrant Dutch bicycle salesman, began a one-year term as chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (membership: 84,000 companies, organizations, state and local chambers and individuals). Voted in by the Chamber's board, Van Andel expects to fill his traditionally figurehead role by making speeches and TV appearances, attending White House meetings and testifying on Capitol Hill in behalf of business...