Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both students and professors would prefer not to have lotteries, and increasing course offerings is clearly the best answer to this problem in the long run. But if professors need to limit enrollment, they should only be allowed to do so by lottery. Juniors as a class were dismissed from Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology," this year after having been dismissed from Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," as sophomores last year. The only fair way to reduce enrollment is to establish a standard procedure, so that students are aware of what faces them when they walk into...
Cambridge's water supply has a history of contamination, according to Water Superintendant James J. Cusack, Jr. The level of sodium in city water is 43 milligrams per liter--more than double the 20 milligrams per liter limit set by state...
...last September, several city activists formed Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods (CCLN), an umbrella group seeking to limit development in residential areas. CCLN members say that until their organization got started, the numerous other associations trying to protect city neighborhoods were often working at cross purposes...
...list distributed yesterday to students, Slive announced the results of a lottery allowing 50 sophomores to enter Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," after the professor told students shopping his course last week that he would have to limit the course because of overcrowding...
...three-day, largely ceremonial trip to Venezuela and El Salvador. Still, the Vice President's handlers were nervous about a possible blunder. When the chartered plane that was to carry nearly 50 reporters along on the trip was abruptly canceled, there were suspicions that the idea was to limit press coverage...