Word: regards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solar. The sun's output of energy is enormous, and environmentalists regard it as the most pleasing energy alternative. But solar technology is in its infancy, and existing methods of drawing heat and electricity from the sun are inefficient and expensive. Today solar contributes less than 1% of the nation's needs...
...these issues despite vigorous and widespread faculty and student sentiment. He gave a clue to the reason for this autocratic stance in his second letter when he wrote that Harvard "will command much less respect if it takes political stands on matters unrelated to education, especially among businessmen who regard these stands as the product of student protest and campus unrest...
...Economics and chairman of the ACSR, admitted at the Faculty meeting before spring break that initiating shareholder resolutions can be an effective way to pressure corporations to withdraw from South Africa. But the ACSR shrinks from even this tame action. Instead, Harvard will adopt a reactive stance with regard to shareholder resolutions, voting on those introduced by others, but refusing to initiate its own. On April 3 the ACSR voted to support a resolution calling on the Timkin Corporation to withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company's South...
...Financial aid at Harvard is need-based and we are most generous in this regard," Keenan explains. He believes that although the system for financial grants is complex, it works and "we will stick with it." And about financial aid for minority students, Lipsky says that so far the GSAS has been able to support the minority students to whom they've offered positions, adding that many have outside money with GSAS fellowships as additional aid. "Nobody has ever been turned away for lack of funds," Lipsky says. But she acknowledges that the graduate school will eventually be unable...
...ominous inconvenience of the gasoline lines has aroused combinations of scapegoating and soul searching. While many Americans blame the oil companies, others regard American energy habits as a symptom of fundamental national weakness. There is an unhappy plausibility in the underlying premise that Americans have drifted into a condition of spoiled purposelessness...