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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also believes that students are being duped into believing that a B.A. degree will ensure success in the corporate job market. Parker's alarm at what she sees as credential worship leads her to recommend abolishing the B.A. degree in order to shift focus to the value of the education itself...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Defoliating Academic Groves | 2/13/1980 | See Source »

Sources close to the State Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) said yesterday they will recommend that the Harvard-financed Medical Area power plant be allowed to install its diesel engines under certain environmental conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Officials May Approve Plan to Install Plant's Diesels | 1/16/1980 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter has not encouraged confidence in the census. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which was passed with his active support, extended the merit system for the selection of Government workers. But Carter is allowing local Democratic organizations to recommend a large number of the 275,000 census takers. "We will ask Democratic politicians for lists of recruits, but not Republicans," says Barabba, who happens to be a Republican. Appointed originally by President Richard Nixon, he served as census director from 1973 to 1976, and was renamed to the job last June. Barabba defends the 1980 hiring process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One, Two, Three, Five... | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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