Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winners, the problem of forming a government with a single-vote majority was compounded by the fact that the three non-socialist parties are deeply divided on the country's two main political issues: nuclear energy and taxes. The Conservatives support further construction of nuclear reactors, which the Center Party and half of the Liberal Party oppose. All three parties want to reduce Sweden's exorbitant income taxes, but cannot agree on how else to pay for Western Europe's most expensive welfare state. The most likely prospect seemed to be either another feeble minority government...
...admissions and school work as our main reason to be," Rider says. The committee Trueheart heads interviews applicants and meets with interested students to answer questions about Harvard. "It's not exactly recruiting--if you recruited 50 applicants and only five were accepted, that wouldn't spread much goodwill," he says. The admissions office has no quotas for regions or cities, but Trueheart says there are general "traditions" that usually govern the number of applicants accepted from a city--recently it's been about seven a year from Rochester...
Many freshman who signed up with SHS waited freshman week for a phone call that never came. Lee Rubin, chairman of the Freshman Task Force (FTF), recollected, "the main thing I heard from freshmen about SHS was, "My big-brother (guide) hasn't gotten in touch with me, What should...
...Rochester, Russell A. Sibley '44, whose family founded the city's main department store, has been the College Fund representative and an active fundraiser for many years--he managed the local effort of the Campaign for Harvard College in the 1950s, Harvard's last major capital drive, and last year ran his class's 35th reunion as well. Rider says the Harvard Club has left most of the fund-raising work to him. "You need to have one enthusiastic guy like Russ Sibley to keep things going and to keep other people interested," he says...
Frank A. Marciano, superintendent of Main Area Maintenance for B&G, said last week the walls of some of the bathrooms of Canaday--one of the most overcrowded University housing facilities--had to be rebuilt because "the sheetrock material behind the showers is not conducive to long-term wear. Canaday is poorly designed--it's as simple as that...