Word: mems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even assuming the optimistic scenario and more consumer spending, the business pickup is not expected to be as strong as after other recessions. Said Eckstein: "It will be a limp recovery." Board mem bers expect the gross national product to increase 3.1% in 1983. The first year after the severe 1974-75 recession, the U.S. economy expanded...
...printing office makes copies of all the exams and again with unspeakable security measures transports each test to Mem Hall about a half hour before the exam is scheduled to begin There--if the building is open--proctors and in structures pick up their tests and a pile of blue books, take them to the room of the exam, and the rest is all too familiar...
Another time, Whitty recalls, the official who was supposed to unlock Mem Hall in the morning never showed up. Following registrar's office procedure, all the professors and proctors who were administering exams that morning had arrived at Mem Hall to pick up their tests and blue books. "We didn't have the key," says Whitty, "the man with the key wasn't turning up, and the security guard didn't have the key." She shrugs...
Margaret F. Law, the Faculty's registrar, was in her office that morning and rushed over to Mem Hall when she heard of the crisis. "I was literally going to break down the door," she recalls. "Then I saw a physics student climbing up one of the walls I knew it was a physics student--I used to teach physics. He got into one of the tower rooms, climbed down, and opened up the door from the inside." The police department gave Law a calf later in the week to ask the name of the student who broke into...
...time when the security broke down. But one administrator remembers a science exam in the early 1970s that fell into the wrong hands, forcing the instructors to write an entirely new test 15 minutes before the exam and read the new version to students in the course over the Mem Hall public address system...