Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malady of the present system is symptomized by a deficiency in liquidity and a fundamental dis-equilibrium. In this system central banks use a mixture of gold and foreign exchange as reserve assets--meaning that they back a portion of their currency with dollars and pounds. Every central bank has the legal right to convert its dollars to pounds at the rate set by the U.S. Treasury: 35 dollars to the ounce. But every central bank knows that the U.S. Treasury just doesn't have enough gold to redeem every dollar in foreign hands. Therefore, every central bank is reluctant...
Twenty-six Eliot Hall girls and one Harvardian, have thus far signed petition which continues "It (the ) is as deserving and functional unobtrusive a part of the anatomy arm or leg, and should be granted its portion of sunlight." Girls from other --particularly those without --have complained that the Radcliffe quad is the only convenient to start that all-important summer...
...University buildings--the new million-dollar Center for International Relations and the $10 million Undergraduate Science Center--are planned for the immediate vicinity of the mall. There has been some speculation that one or both of the buildings might extend onto the closed portion of Kirkland St., but Wiggins said last night that he doubted that either of the structures would protrude into the roadway...
Cars coming up Kirkland St. would be diverted into Quincy St. This traffic pattern and the closing of the portion of Kirkland St. were first suggested several years ago in a University-financed traffic report of the Harvard Square area. Last fall Robert E. Rudolph, Cambridge Traffic Director, formally endorsed the suggestions...
Bogged Down in Trivia. The report's basic assumption is that California's great university system has attracted "a substantial portion of the most highly trained, intelligent, curious and creative individuals in America." They are the main value of a university, in its role as a "continuing critic" of society. Many such individuals are bound to "pursue paths that the great majority of people regard as silly, dangerous or both." But "there is hardly a single example, either in America or elsewhere, of a distinguished university which has been directly responsible to popular opinion." Quite properly...