Word: looming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generals unfortunately adds up to 30 per cent of a student's Honors grade, and this year the department is compounding its sins by reinstitutnig junior generals, which were wisely eliminated in 1961. Probably many students don't take the tests too seriously. But if junior generals do loom large to concentrators, the sharp focus of junior tutorial would be undermined, and the student's freedom to dabble with General Education would be restricted as he is forced to get ready to meet the requirement...
...punishment would probably be academic probation, he said. Still, it was clear that the University was not fooling around. And even though the crack-down that druggies had been worried about all Spring never happened (as it did at Yale, Princeton, and Cornell, for instance), the Administration seemed to loom larger as still another menace both to casual joint smokers and to full-time acidheads...
...complains Chairman Edward J. Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. "It's embargoed." Similar protectionist obstacles cover hundreds of products, from U.S. coal (barred from Britain and the West German Ruhr) to whisky (which cannot be advertised in France). These problems highlight the fact that nontariff barriers now loom as the foremost remaining obstruction to trade...
Moral Double Bookkeeping. The Saigon shifts were evidence of Johnson's willingness to commit his very best advisers to Viet Nam. Much as he would like history to remember him for his far-reaching domestic achievements, he has increasingly resigned himself to the fact that the war will loom large in his record. And he is determined to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion...
...renewal has been suggested. Thus far, the idea has been discussed by the city officials, but nothing official has been proposed. The questions raised by the Library complex are serious ones that fundamentally affect the University environment. The issues of development crystalized this year; the course of development will loom large through the next decade...