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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday approved a plan to toughen sophomore standing requirements by increasing the minimum score students must attain on three Advanced Placement (A.P.) exams from...
Under the present rules, students must take three A.P. exams and earn a minimum score of 3 on each...
...Joint Budget Committee, however, was not long for this world. About six years later, in the midst of the reconsideration of relations between the two colleges, the Committee disappeared--with a minimum of fanfare--superceded by the Joint Policy Committee. The new group--composed of Presidents Bok and Horner, various Radcliffe Trustees and Harvard Corporation members and other administrators--drew up the 1977 agreement. And then it went into retirement...
...demographic reasons, the manpower squeeze is going to get even tighter. Because of generally declining birth rates since 1960, a decreasing number of Americans will be reaching the minimum military enlistment age of 18 in the 1980s. The Pentagon will have an ever more difficult time getting enough recruits to maintain the armed forces at their present strength of 2 million. In view of this prospect, there has been a revived questioning of the concept of the all-volunteer force, which was started...
...million is needed annually by the Army just for enough bullets, artillery shells and mortar rounds for adequate training. So tight has money been that Army crews training in Europe have been allowed to fire only one TOW antitank missile (cost: $5,000 each) a year. Experts believe that minimum proficiency would require three TOWS annually for each crew. Several additional billions of dollars in each of the next few years would be required if the Army sought faster delivery of some major new weapons. Only eight Black Hawk helicopters are produced monthly, the minimum needed to keep the assembly...