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...view from the outside indicates that the 61-year-old Bennett has eased himself gradually out of Harvard's financial picture in an effort to lessen his work load as he ages toward retirement. Bennett announced last year that he was retiring as treasurer to devote more time to his State Street Management and Research Co. Later he said that State Street would bow out as Harvard's portfolio this July...
...black enrollment within the University increased, students of the various faculties began to form their own organizations. To lessen fragmentation, all the black student organizations within the University formed the Organization of Black Unity in the fall...
...there are many people who will never acknowledge the greatness of Hank Aaron, because, to them, it will lessen the legend of the Babe. After all, they did not even really hear about soft-spoken slugger for Atlanta until he hit his 700th homer last summer and it became apparent that barring misfortune, he was a cinch to break the record...
...shuddering 27%. Consumer loan demand in January was growing less than half as fast as it was last summer, and the savings rate has inched up from about 6% to more than 7% as people start banking more of their paycheck instead of spending it. "The energy shortage should lessen the popularity of shopping as a sport," laments Sumner Feldberg, chairman of Massachusetts-based Zayre discount stores. "We're in for a period of tough retailing." Says Dick Balch, a suburban Seattle Chevrolet-Fiat dealer: "It looks to me as if the economy has just plain stopped...
This suit cannot be allowed to dry up due to a lack of funds. It must be vigorously prosecuted. "Paranoia strikes deep," a popular song says. And since the government is now on the defensive as a result of Watergate, this is a good time to seek to lessen the paranoia it engenders. Political justice must apply evenly to all groups, not just to members of the major parties but to Chicanos, blacks, American Indians, women, small political parties and others who have organized to defend their rights or change society and who have received a slot on some official...