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...Though the resolution provides that makeup exams should be granted. it makes no provision requiring professors to postpone or lessen paper requirements. Professors "may grant extensions on written work until the end of the Full term." However, a professor requiring all reading papers to be on time would not be violating the technical language of the resolution...
Industrial or private development of riverways often necessitates the filling-in of adjacent wetlands, she explained, which can lessen the river's depth and lead to greater chances of flood. "During floods, of course septic tanks and chemical pollutants become part of the river," she said...
Postmaster General Winton Blount could only move to lessen the strike's effects, not to end the walkout. Mail destined for affected cities was embargoed, and began piling up by the ton. Mailboxes were ordered sealed. Jailing workers or union officials, a weapon allowed by statute, promised only a tauter confrontation. A court order barring the strike was ignored by the rank and file, who courted contempt citations...
...quarter-century after the cold war began, Willy Brandt, the anti-Nazi who last October became West Germany's first postwar Socialist Chancellor, is seeking to lessen the obstacles that still divide Europe. As soon as he came to power, Brandt touched off a whirl of diplomatic activity. One of his first acts was to end West Germany's 18-month reluctance to sign the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. Only last week, in ceremonies in Washington, Moscow and London, the pact prohibiting the spread of nuclear weaponry was finally proclaimed to be in effect. Thanks to De Gaulle...
...Turco slapped another goal past Eagle netminder Jim Barton at 15:36, and still another at 15:37, Then Steve Owen scored on a breakaway. It was 9-1, and the crowd began buttoning their coats. Even after Sheehy scored again at 18:23, to lessen the humiliation somewhat, Harvard tallied again, on a short-range goal by Mark, with assists from McManama and Turco. It was double-figures against B. C.-for the first time in history