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Greenbaum said one focus of the meeting was to begin a nationwide campaign to obtain signatures for a petition to be presented to President-elect Jimmy Carter on Inauguration...
Most courses meet for one-and-a-half to two hours each week, and the workloads are generally half of the norm for the college. Thus, to obtain a degree, the school's students must take double the College's requirement of full courses. Even numbers of people are enrolled for credit and non-credit courses. The course catalogue, with 156 offerings, closely resembles that for the rest of the University, except for a stronger emphasis on language and basic science courses. Seminars are available in conjunction with the Radcliffe Institute, and writing labs are also offered. The six largest...
...insist on an appointed upper house based on the Franco-style corporate system, rather than a popularly elected one. Because of the Bunker's opposition and the recent emergence of a center-right alliance of parties, Suárez may have to accept some modifications in order to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary for passage of the bill. Suárez had previously antagonized archconservatives by, among other things, taking the first steps toward the legalization of trade unions and all political parties except the Communists...
...appointive level, Harvard professors frequently obtain positions of influence in the federal government without abandoning their tenure on the faculty, and no questions of impropriety are raised. If they seek elective office, however, they apparently run the risk of drawing fire...
...voters' inability to obtain a real grasp of Jimmy Carter's nature is not really so surprising. It would not be too extreme to say that no presidential campaign in American history has succeeded in accurately portraying the candidates' real personalities. On the other hand, past candidates have been more successful than Carter in presenting a comprehensible portrait of themselves to the voters, regardless of accuracy. And therein lies a measure of Gerald Ford's success...