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Though the limit on raises is more lenient than the 3% that Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey originally proposed, it is considerably tighter than the policy now in effect, which holds pay boosts to
...streets. Five minutes later, they received a call and arrested a drunk Cambridge teenager. "We knew the kid," Murphy said. "We've arrested him three times before, but we'll have to let him go because he's a juvenile." Juvenile courts, he says, are much more lenient than district courts, where anyone 17 years old and over is tried...
...University police are also more lenient with University-affiliated cars that are parked illegally but are not blocking a fireplug or firelane. "We only tow those if they are flagrant or repeating offenders," Gorski said...
...changed version of the standards, drawn up following a series of straw votes at the last Faculty meeting, will pass. In the week following publication of the new standards, two amendments were proposed. One of the amendments will result in stricter standards, while the other will make them more lenient...
This time, however, Harvard could not afford to be as lenient as it had been before. His alleged falsification of the federally guaranteed loan application constituted a federal crime. The University turned a handwriting analysis and other evidence over to the FBI, and Spiro was arrested on December...