Word: granting
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...thrift suffered a run on deposits in 1984, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board seized American and installed fresh management. But the new team gambled and failed in a multibillion-dollar investment in mortgage-backed securities. When the Bank Board went looking for help again, it eventually decided to grant exclusive bargaining rights to the Robert M. Bass Group, which had already taken over such properties as the Westin hotel chain and Bell & Howell...
March 10, 1988-President Bok announces that he did not grant tenure to Professor of Law Clare Dalton, an adherent to the radical school of legal thought, Critical Legal Studies (CLS). The Law School Faculty becomes polarized over the Dalton issue and its ideological ramifications. Professor of Law Robert C. Clark is among Dalton's and CLS's-most vocal critics...
HIJACKING OF THE ACHILLE LAURO (NBC, Feb. 13, 9 p.m. EST). The docudrama mill churns on, this time reprising the 1985 terrorist attack that resulted in Leon Klinghoffer's murder. Karl Malden, Lee Grant and E.G. Marshall head a sturdy cast...
While I believe in contributing to one's society for the benefits one has received, I do not think the Nunn plan will accomplish this goal. In order to finance this program, the government would have to cut all existing federal aid programs such as the Pell Grant, College Work Study and the NDSL, GSL and the SEOG loan and grant programs...
There are alternative ways to encourage students to give in return for what they get. The government can financially support the development of campus community service organizations, encourage universities to grant academic credit for carefully administered community work and forgive loans for those who go into community work with lower salaries after graduating from school...