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While he admitted that "local control of education is one of the fundamental doctrines of our nation," Conant maintained that his proposal would in no way impair its operation. To prove his point, he cited the Hill-Thomas-Taft Bill, which "has been framed to provide Federal aid to education, without Federal control...
Such difficulties are not going to end or seriously impair Anglo-American cooperation. But unless the differences are noted, analyzed and ironed out (as now seems to have been done on Palestine), the Anglo-U.S. association will be increasingly uncomfortable...
Gummere pointed out the fact that these new rulings abolished only the inconsistency of the old degrees, and did not impair the flexibility in an undergraduates choice of courses. Many students majoring in the Humanities often have a real need for Latin and greek, and many more with a background in the Classics may wish to continue studying them. These men will have every opportunity to do so. However, anyone majoring in such scientific fields where they are unnecessary can disregard the subjects entirely...
...sale prices on new homes may offer the straw which will break the back of the nation's general economy, throwing us into an inflationary spiral more severe than has been experienced in this country before. But, even if it did not have that result, it would seriously impair, for one thing, the veterans' housing program which has taken months to get under...
...which was tied in with the more important political question of a unified Germany, Russia last week seemed to move much nearer the West's position. Russia had already removed $2,500,000,000 worth of capital goods from Germany. Further removals were not advisable, for they would impair current production in the Soviet zone (from which Russia is taking $35 million worth each month). At the same time the Soviet zone needed steel from the western zones, which the U.S. and Britain would deliver only on one condition: lowering of zonal barriers to permit a flow of trade...