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...this way, the JV squad, which includes two of last year's varsity lettermen, will provide a continual prod to the varsity. Lee explained that Harvard dropped its freshman golf team and replaced it with a JV squad this year when an NCAA ruling made freshmen eligible to compete in varsity golf...
...fact that so many of us ordinary citizens and extraordinary policemen are murdered every week is still not enough to prod Congress into passing some kind of meaningful gun-control law. Limit them, remove them, tax hell out of them, confiscate them-but do something. Personally, I'm afraid of a gun, and I like to think that this attitude shows common sense...
...Nixon's family-assistance plan to provide a minimum income of $2,400 for a family of four is abandoned; no money for it is included in the budget. The Administration will also try to prod local communities into pruning relief rolls. The budget projects a saving of $592 million from stopping payments to "ineligibles...
...Harvard, while more students are admitted, the faculty is frozen. Foreseeable budget deficits will prod the Administration to make Faculty outs, only to worsen even more the student-faculty ratio and enlarge already crowded classrooms. The Budget Office may find solace in increasing the total number of students but the educational quality of Harvard can only suffer...
...report insist that exponential growth is also possible in the technology that enables society to utilize new resources, wring more food from the land and curb pollution. In the resources field, some experts sketch this scenario: long before resources run out, scarcities would force price boosts. The expense would prod industrialists and consumers to substitute one material for another, develop recycling techniques to use existing supplies more efficiently, and redouble efforts to find ways of using materials-for example, oil-bearing shale-that were previously uneconomic or technically impossible to exploit. Before long, commercial harnassing of thermonuclear fusion could make...