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...under consideration for approval. That is not true of Wyoming, which ranks 49th and seems unconcerned. Its legislature is allowed to meet only 40 days (including Sundays and holidays) every other year and does not even have the power to extend its session if business is incomplete. It is forbidden to take any action between sessions; it cannot even conduct studies. Not one employee is engaged in research to help members understand pending legislation. The Wyoming legislators earn only $1,640 for the two years (although the pay per day is high...
...political cases away from the Ad Board's jurisdiction. So it makes that all clearer in a proposed amendment, which would specify that only students asked to leave the University by the Committee- and not those disciplined by the Ad Board, for theft, property destruction, or anything else- are forbidden to be present "in any part of the Harvard community without the express written permission of the Committee." So the new voting procedure to elect student CRR delegates is an elaborate lottery system that, as Anderson said, "is guaranteed to produce students," thus avoiding embarrassing situations such as Quincy House...
Pending the results of the investigation, Font is forbidden to leave his barracks except to go to work or to church...
Though the New York Stock Exchange boasts of being the financial hub of capitalist free enterprise, it still tries to operate as a quasimonopoly. For 179 years, the exchange has been run as a private club in which membership is restricted and price competition forbidden. Two years of losses and a near crisis of public confidence have led the brokerage community to conclude that reform is essential. The Big Board is reluctantly edging toward more liberalized membership rules and competitive pricing, but these ideas are still heresy in some quarters. Consequently, the nation was treated last week to the rare...
Perils of Exodus. Like other Soviet citizens, Jews are forbidden to emigrate freely. Even applying for an exit visa is regarded as gross ingratitude, if not downright disloyalty, to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, some 40,000 Jews during the past three years have dared to risk official wrath by filing applications to leave for Israel. Only a bare trickle of about 2,000 a year have been allowed to leave. Almost all of those who have applied for visas have lost their jobs and been subjected to intimidation and insults by police and neighbors...