Word: objections
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...House's code requires Congressmen to file financial disclosure statements with the House clerk by April 30. O'Neill was the first to issue a financial report, listing a net worth of $181,000 and describing himself as "a man of modest means." But other Representatives object to disclosing their personal finances, even though the need for a strong code was underscored last week by the sentencing of former Democratic Representative Richard Hanna of California to jail for six to 30 months for conspiring to defraud the U.S. He was accused of accepting more than $200,000 from...
Beneath a small honeycombed disc on the front of the camera is a thin, gold-coated plastic foil diaphragm that acts as both transmitter and receiver of sound. The diaphragm emits a millisecond "chirp" that bounces back from the object aimed at and, in a series of steps that take a fraction of a second, fixes the lens at the precise focus, from 10 in. to infinity. Not an accessory, the device is an integral part of the camera, which will go on sale late this year. List price: about $280, v. $233 for the regular SX-70, which produces...
...seven years a structure has been rising next to the neoclassical bulk of the National Gallery in Washington: cool, prismatic, with the containment and elegant definition of a quartz crystal, a hand-rubbed object if ever there was one. It is the gallery's new East Building, designed by I.M. Pei. When it is finally opened to the public on June 1, it will take its place among the great museum buildings of the past hundred years. It is not an innovative or deliberately spectacular structure, as the still debated Centre Beaubourg in Paris turned out to be. Down...
Currently the fee is directly figured into the term bill of each Radcliffe student. Students who object to the fee may request a refund by writing...
Mass is interpreted as a commitment to democratic and egalitarian principles. The object is to challenge the hierarchy of power epitomized by the nuclear establishment. There are no officers in Clamshell, and offices serve as communication centers, not decision-making ones. All meetings operate on consensus rather than majority vote...