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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calabrese said he is aware of a sentiment among more radical students that the Student Assembly could diffuse energy previously funneled into effective demonstrations against the administration. "I don't think there is a grand conspiracy to co-opt student power, but I think it has occurred to them [Harvard administrators] that if they don't provide for student input into University decisions, they'll have a dangerous situation on their hands ...They probably realize it's in their own best interest to work with the Student Assembly instead of ad hoc demonstrations. This will funnel student energies so that...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Uncertainty Is the Key Word As Assembly Elections Near | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Dedicated to our careers, we made the decision to opt for the no-child career-play life-style eleven years ago when we married, and backed it up with a vasectomy. What could be more apropos in this world of scarcities and overpopulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1978 | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Some British Cabinet members last week were hoping that a two-way deal could be pulled off so that British firms could be involved in both the Airbus and one of the U.S. projects. If Britain were to opt for the U.S. deal, in angry Continental eyes that would compound the suspicion that deep down Britain is more interested in maintaining its mid-Atlantic "special relationship" with America than in being a true Common Market partner. Squabbling continued through the week not only about money and planes but also over a common fisheries policy for the E.C.; the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMUNITY: Out of Step Again | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Nearly one out of every three alumnae who opt for employment is going into business or industry, a ten-per-cent increase from 1976. About 15 per cent of those choosing work enter jobs in the media or education, traditionally the most popular field...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Radcliffe Survey Reveals More Alumnae Working, Delaying Graduate Studies | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...surprised that TIME should still opt for the same brand of cheap sensationalism as Senator Proxmire. Of the $97,000 of the NIMH grant in question, a maximum of $50 was spent on the brothel study. This minute aspect of the total project resulted in a single paragraph of 14 lines in a book of 324 pages where George Primov and I reported the results of our study, approximately the one-thousandth part of the total project. The book is entitled Inequality in the Peruvian Andes; Class and Ethnicity in Cuzco. That sounds sexy, doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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