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Officials said that asbestos is being renovated in various parts of the building on an ad hoc basis. The MCZ project is the only ongoing, major asbestos renovation prompted by individual complaints...
...federal rules approved last week, which deny federal education funds to male students who have not registered for the draft, are too comprehensive for any such ad hoc remedies. Applying to Guaranteed Student Loans, PLUS auxiliary loans, National Direct Student Loans, Pell Grants, supplemental grants, and work-study, the rules would affect about two million college and graduate students, according to New York Times estimates. Harvard distributes more than $2 million of such aid yearly. The new procedure, which simply requires that students provide proof of having registered to qualify for federal aid, has no appeals clause for philosophic opposition...
...long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions. Experts on capital punishment, both pro and con, agree that as many as ten to 15 inmates could be put to death this year, a total not reached since the early 1960s. "People on death rows...
Across the street from the entrances of most U.S. college campuses are clusters of small photocopying operations that taken collectively just might make up the largest university publisher in the nation. They reproduce large swatches of fiction and nonfiction, ad hoc anthologies of articles and book excerpts, academic texts and scientific papers, often with faculty approval and frequently at their behest. But in seeming violation of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act, no royalties are usually paid to the authors or publishers of the original works. In an effort to get the academic community to stop copying off their pages, nine...
...about refashioning U.S. policy in the Middle East. He and aides worked hard and quietly; at night their working papers were locked in Shultz's office safe to prevent leaks to the press. The Secretary made sure that Reagan was kept abreast: three times he took his ad hoc policy review group to the White House to explain the salient details of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Reagan, who is instinctively pro-Israeli, was gradually persuaded to adopt a policy that was more even-handed toward the Palestinians...