Word: leniently
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...Labor Prime Minister, Harold Wilson has some hard words for British businessmen-who often are indifferent to tax write-offs for new equipment, which, under Wilson's brand of socialism, are as lenient as anywhere in the world. Wilson has words for the loyal trade-union workingman as well, decrying the attitude that loses export orders through featherbedding...
...Baptists on the Board of Trustees at Wake Forest College in Illinois, a censorship of modern poetry at Oregon, and a proposed rent equalization at the University of Pennsylvania. Yalies have demonstrated in favor of coeducation, and students at Penn, Trinity, and New Mexico State are seeking more lenient social regulations...
...chancellor indicated that he would be more lenient on the subject of free speech on campus than his predecessor, Chancellor Edward W. Strong. Meyerson called for the "widest opportunities in speech and in all kinds of intellectual exposure...
...with Mergers. The best prospect for saving sickly lines is merger with more prosperous, freight-heavy carriers. Lately the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken a more lenient attitude toward mergers, approving in July one of the greatest rail linkups in U.S. history-the Norfolk & Western's absorption of five other lines. Now the ICC is considering 13 railroad mergers. The biggest deal by far would...
...father that he died of a heart attack. Last week the police said they were still searching. But the word around the favelas was that the cops had found Horseface all right, had killed him and hidden the body rather than risk judgment in Brazil's notoriously lenient courts...