Word: program
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard tutorial program chalked up its 65th birthday this year, it seems to be limping toward retirement. The idea of an intellectual challenge shared by a single student and his Faculty tutor is fading into oblivion. Tutorial instruction is now largely the duty of graduate teaching fellows, particularly in the larger departments, where professors spend more time in research and less time in individualized instruction with students. Most Faculty members now slip out of their tutorial responsibilities by advising a senior writing a thesis or--less frequently--reviewing a teaching fellow's reading list...
...regards him as something of a rebel, Jones last January maneuvered himself onto the powerful Budget Committee. He has since recommended cuts in spending for the Urban Development Bank, the Department of Energy's mismanaged Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Labor Department's scandal-plagued CETA employment program...
Congress scrapped the quotas in 1974, but the sweetheart spirit survives. Under a four-year-old program of Government subsidies and price supports, growers still get twice the world level, or at least 150 per Ib. Now they are pushing legislation to add another eight-tenths of 10 to supports, and to keep the price rising by a full 7% annually until 1981. The raise may not seem like much, but each one-penny increase adds $500 million a year to Americans' grocery expenses...
Chrysler's unit sales so far this year have dropped 13.4%. Stuck with the oldest plants and highest costs among the Big Three, the company is struggling to raise money for a fiveyear, $7.5 billion modernization program. Chrysler officials recently visited 81 banks in Europe and North America, drew $100 million from company credit lines and persuaded bankers to stretch out $302.6 million of debt due next year. Chairman John Riccardo had previously renegotiated a $567.5 million revolving credit agreement with the banks, sold off most of the company's foreign operations and raised $250 million from...
...Lauren Bacall by Myself, Bacall (2) 4. The Bronx Zoo, Lyle & Golenbock(4) 5. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (3) 6. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady...