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...enemy here is bureaucracy. When someone asks why disparities persist in the handling of Harvard and Radcliffe financial aid programs, administrators' fingers all seem to point to a different level of the hierarchy. The Student Employment Office is responsible for the day-to-day management of the work-study program, but University Hall and Radcliffe administrators have input into policy decisions, and the Office of Fiscal Services fills out the applications for grants. The Financial Aid Office determines a student's need for both employment and loans, and a separate loan office gets into the act with the NDSL program...
...they reach an accord, it will have to be ratified by the Senate before taking effect. But fears persist on Capitol Hill that the Soviets have underhandedly violated the old SALT agreement and cannot be trusted to keep a new one. Indeed, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accused Moscow of exactly that in a recent article in the Reader's Digest titled, Arms Control: The Russians Are Cheating...
...city would try its best to keep it alive, and other ranking state political leaders also pledged to join in rescue efforts. Thus it was possible that somebody, somehow, would manage to extend the deadline. Yet it was inconceivable that the Music Hall could ever be revived to persist as what it once was. Nobody around can bring back the times and the taste on which its success relied...
...born in the new homeland of a tribe of America's oldest people, the Mohawk Indians, who won a piece of state land at Ganienkeh, N.Y., after a three-year struggle. Indeed, both the nation's birth and marriage rates rose in 1977. Though serious problems persist in the U.S., a sense of well-being and restored community pervades...
...former employer muscling in. Says he: "I told Carter Hawley their timing was inappropriate, but they kept pushing." The day the C.H.H. bid was announced, Field filed a suit charging that the merger would violate antitrust law, a standard move in takeover battles. Carter Hawley seems determined to persist, to the point of upping its bid if necessary. Analysts see no way Field can ward off an eventual merger -if not with C.H.H., then with any one of several other big department store companies...