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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election of senior class officers was one of the year's major events; the CRIMSON's coverage lasted for days, culminating in a tally of the vote for every candidate. Lower ranking faculty-members lived with a protracted system for getting tenure that kept them even less secure than they...
...most difficult decision for attackers is how much above the going market price to offer for stock they covet. In a study of 50 contested tender offers, Columbia University Professors Samuel L. Hayes III and Russell A. Taussig recently found that the average premium was 16%, though lower-priced stocks ($10 to $20) often required an extra sweetener...
...their search for lower labor costs, many U.S. manufacturers have cast their eyes-and their production lines -as far as Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. Now they have begun to look closer to home. Almost unnoticed, the dusty, teeming, and often decrepit towns just south of the 2,000-mile U.S.Mexican border are undergoing the quiet beginnings of what one U.S. textile maker says could be "a massive industrial program...
...conference committee adopts the House plan, 19-year-olds could choose between the service or a college deferment until their graduation or 24th birthday (whichever came first). Such an option would cripple the President's plan to ease the heavy burden of conscription on lower income groups through the lottery system. It would permit 19-year-olds who have the resources to attend college to wait out the Vietnamese war in school while forcing young men without those resources to serve...
...local examinations, successful candidates would be allowed to take the district examination, the regional examination, and the palace examination respectively. Candidates who passed all the exams would be called the tien si and would be appointed as high magistrates or court mandarins. Those who passed the exams on the lower levels would be appointed to less important jobs. There were many successful candidates who, instead of working for the court, went back to their respective villages and towns and formed an informal local elite group. This latter group was very important in that while it represented the local people...