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Perhaps future expansion here should be directed toward the Extension School, so that larger sectors of the community can reap the benefits of continuing education. The success of such a venture would depend on the willingness of Harvard's administration to give some financial support to the school, which at present operates solely on the basis of tuition and a small grant from the Lowell Institute...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Extension School Helps Non-Students Catch Up On Things | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Elliot Richardson proposed that all coastal nations be allowed to extend control of offshore waters to a depth of 650 ft. Seaward from that point, they might develop undersea oil or ore reserves, but only as "trustees" for a so-called seabed authority representing the international community, which would reap up to 50% of the profits from deep-sea exploitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEANS: Wild West Scramble for Control | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...preventive coup, similar to the one in Rhodesia, and install a white minority government not attached to Portugal. A desire for independence from Portugal among the white colonists--who number close to 10 per cent of the population--dates back to the 1950s, when many realized they could reap the benefits brought by a cheap labor force and rich resources without sharing them with Lisbon...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: The Prospect for Portuguese Africa | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

...make explicit the Institute's formal relationship to the Afro Department would frustrate the Afro Department's attempts to sanction programs through the Institute. If formal connections with Institute and the Afro Department were reinstated in the plan, the Afro Department would be in a better position to reap the full benefits of the Institute's resources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Institute Reform | 4/26/1974 | See Source »

...Those unable to reap full benefits from their natural rights are apparently to stand aside from life for the sake of the more fortunate. Injustice is to be corrected by expunging its victims. We must distinguish and ruthlessly discredit that portion of our reaction built on a horror of the apparently grotesque. Our primitive urge to destroy that which is unlike and yet like ourselves is extremely compelling: perhaps it is the major force behind moral catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1974 | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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