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...Hicks has been a steadfast opponent of the racial imbalance laws in Massachusetts which forbid school enrollments more than 50 per cent non-white. She also has stubbornly opposed proposals to remedy racial imbalance in the city of Boston through busing...
...bill limiting Defense Department- sponsored research that has passed both Houses of Congress "could have a considerable effect" on Harvard's decision about the Cambridge Project. Brooks said. The measure would forbid Defense research that does not have "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation...
...banks started curtailing purchases of municipals in order to conserve funds for loans to corporate clients. Municipal-bond prices dropped, and interest rates on outstanding bonds rose from an average of 4.85% in December to 6.37% in September. Laws in several states, notably Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and California, forbid payment of that much interest on new bonds. Those states, and their local-government units, have been unable to float new issues. Last week local governments failed to sell $142 million in public housing bonds paying 6% interest -even though they were backed by the credit of the Federal Government. Proceeds...
Because the Coop itself is in debt, it cannot be of very much direct monetary aid to the community. "To expand, the Coop had to borrow from local banks and the John Hancock Company. The terms of those loans expressly forbid us to invest in any other businesses," Brown explains. The Coop can, however, give about $5000 to charity each year, which it donates through the United Appeal...
...whirling of the stage machinery. In Job as in Jesus the references, the allusions, the modulations of mood may be too rapid--the whole production too visually and verbally dense--to be digested at one sitting. And it may be, too, that Mayer's profound sense of privacy may forbid him from ever making the more leisurely statements which will make his work more accessible to strangers...