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...that, there are definite limits to the enthusiasm for things American. Stepping up enforcement of laws dating back to 1966 that forbid the use of foreign phrases in advertisements, a special commissioner's office has been handing out fines of up to $700 to firms that fail to translate American words like hamburger (bifteck hache) and show biz (industrie du spectacle). Officials are busy coining replacements for such computer terms as hardware (materiel) and software (logiciel). While the language may be under assault, French pride--and what would France be without it?--remains / indestructible. "We find it hard to admit...
...Crimson's Confidential Guide; it was described as a "responsible guide." Many professors, however, nonetheless feared the Guide could have objected to the entire concept of student evaluation of their courses. The Faculty Council allowed the Guide staff to solicit information on grade medians from faculty members, but then forbid the Guide to publish them...
Despite the 1927 Pepper-McFadden Act and many similar state laws that forbid banks to set up branch offices outside their home state, major institutions have exploited technicalities to spread like kudzu across the landscape. Citicorp now operates 980 offices in 41 states. Comptroller of the Currency Conover gave the movement a boost this month by approving permits for 83 so-called nonbank banks. These are institutions that can take deposits and provide all other financial services except making commercial loans. Banks have also tried to boost their share of the mortgage market by acquiring thrift institutions, the traditional source...
Much can be done to restrain both money power and television power. Wise laws, to take one example, can forbid the contribution of money to any candidate in one state from sources in any other state. Wise laws can conscript time from the networks to be shared evenhandedly between the major candidates. New laws can and must help. Yet, in the end, politics is the entry way to power, cruel or benign, and in our system...
Mondale: God forbid. You know, Ron, we're lucky we've got some smart guys behind the scenes. Our advertising drive of you capturing the nation's emotion and me nabbing the American intellect was damn effective. But I'm glad some of those lefty Central America sympathizers didn't look up 1964 in their American history textbooks...