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Inconvenience, crowding and frustration have greeted many History concentrators this week, as a set of faculty leaves has cut course offerings in the department's American wing by one-fourth...
Four hundred sophomores--about one-fourth of the Class of 1992--will have an even worse time of it, as they must pass either the data or computer makeup tests or remain on academic probation. They have a month to pass the tests--and pay the $40 makeup...
...have told their patients, television announcements have dramatized the dangers, and warning signs have gone up in restaurants and bars. But too many mothers-to-be are not getting the message. More than 50,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year with alcohol-related defects. In about one-fourth of these cases, the damage -- ranging from facial deformities to heart abnormalities -- is severe enough to be classified as fetal alcohol syndrome...
That makes it even harder to accept that more than three decades later, roughly one-fourth of the material remains unpublished. Originally the informal target date for publishing transcriptions of all the scrolls was 1970. Now, responding to mounting pressures, the 18 scholars on the official scrolls team have given the Israeli government a timetable calling for publication of the remaining materials by 1997. This year Israel's antiquities department set up a committee to monitor progress. The new timetable, however, has only inflamed the critics...
Malone and his backers will first have to raise 51,000 signatures. Then their proposal would require the approval of one-fourth of the Massachusetts House and Senate in two separate constitutional conventions. It would then need majority support on a statewide ballot and could be placed before the voters no sooner than the 1992 election...