Word: perring
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Under this program, only 25 per cent of ROTC courses need be accredited by the University for ROTC to stay at Harvard
...imported, but it had by no means exhausted them. Relative to France's GNP or her international trade, they were still adequate in comparison with those of other nations, even the U.S. and other western European nations. True, the wage increases conceded last spring had triggered an eleven per cent increase in prices that would certainly affect France's balance of payments. But it was far from obvious that it would plunge France, consistently a surplus-runner, into a balance of payments deficit...
...have been relieved by a prompt revaluation of the mark, but the Germans played coy with the money markets, issuing occasional pronouncements to the general effect that everyone should ignore the speculation and it would finally go away. They knew it was costing the French $800 million in gold per day to maintain the parity of the franc--and they loved...
...give them their due, though, they finally did come through with a combination of revised export and import taxes which have the same effect on the international prices of their goods as a 4 or 5 per cent upward revaluation would have had. (But adjusting export taxes does not have the same psychological impact on speculators that a revaluation has, and the Germans knew that, too.) And their position wasn't really so harsh, once it had been stripped of its vindictiveness. They were asking why they should sacrifice any of Germany's hard-earned prosperity simply because the English...
Springfield wasn't a better team than Harvard. The Crimson shot reasonably well--42 per cent from the field--and scored as many points there as Springfield--58. Harvard also out-rebounded the Maroon by 13 rebounds...