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...Fourteen students were charged before the Committee in connection with the Lowell House incident. Charges against four students were dismissed. Ten students were required to withdraw from the University for varying periods of time, with the requirement suspended. In the event of any further misconduct during the period of suspension deemed by the Committee to warrant disciplinary action, the suspension will be nullified and the requirement that the student withdraw will take effect...
...pilot saw the earth's curved horizon before them in the orbiter's front window. The crew, dead serious now in the early moments of the flight, proceeded in efficient monotones through checklists, opening and closing switches, scanning the warning lights on the cockpit panels, coordinating with mission control. Fourteen minutes into the flight, Houston relayed a message of congratulations from the President, written in robust Rose Garden prose...
...Fourteen states, mainly in the Northeast and South, have laws allowing regional banks to join forces. Specifically locked out of the agreements are New York and California, home to the biggest U.S. banks. The court action seems certain to spur new mergers between regional institutions. In the South, the decision immediately cleared the way for Citizens & Southern (assets $8 billion), Georgia's largest bank-holding company, to acquire Landmark Banking Corp. (assets $3.8 billion). Harry Keefe Jr., chairman of the Wall Street brokerage firm of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, predicts that the pace of acquisitions will accelerate. "There are only...
Reagan's rejection surprised many because no sitting American president has spoken since 1905, when Theodore Roosevelt, an 1880 graduate of the College, delivered the address. Fourteen presidents have received honorary degrees through the years, however, beginning with George Washington...
...Fourteen years ago Harvard did not have a policy on shareholder responsibility; the positions the University has since taken are a direct response to constant pressure. In 1972 the Harvard Corporation formed the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. In 1979 the Corporation actually voted its stock in favor of one of its portfolio corporations leaving South Africa because the company would not disclose information about its operations there. In 1981 the University announced it would no longer invest in companies that do more than half their business there and would continue intensive dialogue with portfolio companies that are not signatories...