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...Harvard joins the proxy hold-outs, it will not risk its financial security by decreasing its dividend returns. It will pave the way for all Ivy colleges, who together own over 600,000 shares of GM stock, to also join the hold-outs. A Harvard vote against the GM management could provide the impetus necessary to push GM into a more responsible attitude toward the public. It may, after the shock passes through Massachusetts Hall, even be good for GM. And, after all, what's good for General Motors is supposed to be good for the country...
Best of all, Bynum says, there would be no foreseeable shortage of materials for the improved roads. Combined with asphalt, the old tires and bottles disposed of in 1970 could pave a freeway that would span the U.S. 23 times...
...happening that I didn't know about." One trouble with the bureau, claims one of its most effective field men, is that it is overstaffed at top levels (there is one BIA employee for every 18 reservation Indians), and it takes three years to get new funds to pave a road. "We have created a monster," he says...
...month, the normal human infant breaks into its first smile. The expression is often considered a reflex action, but it soon becomes social, and in the fourth month develops into that explosive, exclusively human breath pattern called laughter. Laughter serves man well. It can relieve his anxiety and tension, pave the way to friendship and enable him to tolerate his own-and life's-absurdities. Laughter is vital in helping to define what is human: its absence is generally taken as a sign of grave psychic stress. Yet laughter itself has never been satisfactorily defined. "The laughable is what...
Invalidation of the temporary injunction today in court would pave the way towards eviction of the four families and the erection of a 212-unit medium-low-in-come housing project on the site. If the injunction is upheld and the families remain in their homes, the BRA faces the loss of vital funds for the project from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). FHA has set November 1 as the deadline for clearing the site...