Word: reconsiderations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The results of the tight-money policy have been to discourage attempts to provide increased productivity in important sectors of the economy and to discourage the production of new housing facilities for an increasing population. Credit restraint enables large firms, and firms in non-competitive markets, to expand more easily...
Thus the weight of law and order, misused in Little Rock, aroused in Nashville, achieved a notable triumph. By week's end even the weakening rabble-rousers were beginning to reconsider. No Nashville white had shouted more loudly against integration than a burly, tattooed man named George H. Akins...
...appropriated, however, there seemed nothing they could do to stop the shipments. Then, at week's end, came a new obstacle to resumed U.S. military assistance. Huffed Belgrade, apparently with one eye on Moscow: it would need time to "reconsider" the question of U.S. heavy-weapons deliveries. The "reconsideration." the State Department believed. would not take long...
The committee will not disclose how many applicants were accepted nor the total number of applications the college received. Miss Ballou said, however, that Radcliffe may reconsider its policy on withholding statistics on acceptances, since many other schools, including Harvard, do release this information.
By its very name course reduction assumes somewhat of a negative aspect. It is the college's way of groping toward the hazy ideal of independent study. Its presence in the curriculum, however, might conceivably act as a crutch in defending the present general system against new curricular suggestions. If...