Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent pleas for the Corporation to relieve the burden of the Faculty deficit by reducing its capital endowment will surely fall on deaf ears. Educational and other non-profit trusts and foundations are loathe to take such a step. However, much the same result could be achieved by better management...
As usual, Pusey was far behind the students and the Faculty. Three thousand people had voted two days before Pusey's statement to put the University on strike, joining over 300 other schools around the country. The Faculty voted optional pass-fail and credit grades on courses to free students...
Burger warned his audience that the entire criminal-law system, including the number of judges, prosecutors and courtrooms, is built on a shaky premise: "that approximately 90% of defendants will plead guilty, leaving only 10%, more or less, to be tried." As defendants exercise new rights, he said, the system...
The prospect of an accompanying decline in U.S. military spending particularly displeased the Asians-none, perhaps, more than the Thais. Facing a budgetary deficit of $250 million in 1970, the Bangkok government last week announced that duties and excise rates on more than 200 imported items would be drastically increased...
At week's end many factories shut for the annual two-week summer vacation, leaving thousands with time on their hands, paychecks in their pockets and nowhere to spend either but Ulster's pubs. All leaves for hospital personnel in main cities were canceled through parade day. Many...