Word: informs
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Popping a Precedent. Never before in Pulitzer history have Columbia's trustees vetoed a board recommendation,† and never before have the annual Pulitzer prizes failed to anoint a biographer. To compound the mystery, the trustees popped their veto without bothering to inform anyone-even the advisory board-in advance. Then, as questions flew, the trustees took refuge in silence...
...Information Minister M'hammed Yazid hastened to inform newsmen that "we are all very fond of one another and on the best of terms." But Premier Benkhedda, watching a hundred thousand Moroccans lining the seven-mile route to Rabat and screaming "Yaeesh Ben Bella!" (Long live Ben Bella), could well be wondering if the return of an old comrade might not mean the rise of a political rival...
...Fund for the Advancement of Education suggests that every state set up a research commission, financed by one-half of 1% of the state education budget. New York already has a similar system, in which State Com missioner of Education James E. Allen Jr. is working hard to inform school boards on reforms. But no state yet has a full-time research commission. "If 50 states had them," says Eurich, "we'd see a fast improvement in national education." In theory, the top goader could be the U.S. Office of Education, which has recently awakened under articulate Com missioner...
Each of the seven knows what he wants to happen in Latin America. The problem is not that they each think differently, but that they have not come together to inform the Congress--or the press--what they conceive reasonable goals...
Unless, of course, the U.S. government is prepared to take the kind of action the British report urges; a federal publicity campaign to inform the public of the dangers of smoking. Failing that, the Food and Drug Administration could require cigarette manufacturers to stamp on each package: DANGER--INCREASES PROBABILITY OF LUNG CANCER...