Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions still remain about the structure of the course requirements. Last spring the Faculty agreed to authorize the Core committees to investigate several plans that would allow students more choice in how they fulfill the Core requirements. Facing the committees are plans to allow students a limited to by-pass Core courses with certain departmental courses, or to switch one half- course requirement from one field of study in the Core to another...
...instance, Epps said he had given former delegates to the convention permission to pass out information about the approaching assembly elections to students in Memorial Hall during registration. Although this action is minor, Epps termed the action "a restricted approval" of the Student Assembly. He was quick to clarify that this does not imply University recognition--such recognition can only come from CHUL on behalf of the Faculty. Epps said he intends to consider each request make by the Student Assembly on a case-by-case basis. For instance, once the 85 assembly members are elected, they will need...
...prospect of such a major Administration program going to its doom prompted Carter to cut short his vacation by two days and hurry back to the White House for some intense lobbying. He summoned a group of eleven Governors and warned them that the energy package must pass. "The entire world," he said, "is looking at our Government to see whether we have the national will to deal with this difficult challenge. If this legislation is not enacted, it will have a devastating effect on our national image, the value of the dollar, our balance of trade and inflation...
...Mark Hatfield and Arkansas' Dale Bumpers, who oppose any breeder reactor at all, were also soured by the arrangement with McClure. Schlesinger, however, dismissed Senate criticisms of the bill as "twaddle" and predicted that the Administration would get the support of enough of some 30 undecided Senators to pass...
...certain sadness in this. A President ought to be able to remove himself from public contact for two weeks, particularly to get away from Washington, which is just terrible in August and September. ("I consider it as a trying experiment for a person from the mountains to pass the two bilious months on the tide-water," wrote a new President, Thomas Jefferson, in 1801. "I have not done it these 40 years, and nothing should induce me to do it.") But today's politicians who want to sneak off now and then for some solitude also want the public...