Word: reined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Davis Jackson, assistant Director of Admissions at Dartmouth, stood by his institution's policy of allowing coaches free rein in approaching candidates, and William D'O. Lippincott, Dean of Students at Princeton, advocated reliance on a "healthy" attitude toward athletics rather than on restrictions...
...Harvard Club of Boston, wrote, "Harvard's policy on recruiting by coaches is essentially that this is not their normal function." The letter charged that most of the Ivies have more liberal policies than Harvard's, and that at least one institution allows its coaches "virtually a free rein" in recruiting...
...have policies similar to Harvard's; most have liberal policies" Most of the Ivies permit coaches to contact candidates at their homes and schools, "by invitation and in consultation with the college admissions officers," the letter says, and at least one Ivy college allows its coaches "virtually a free rein" in recruiting...
...Another rein to conservative criticism is that TVA is, in effect, run like a private enterprise. Though the Government still supports its vast nonprofit public projects, its power functions (82% of all its assets) have long been self-supporting and self-liquidating. TVA prospers partly because it pays no taxes. Instead, it returns 5% of its gross (excluding sales to federal agencies) to states and counties. Its coal supplies are so conveniently located that its fuel costs are only 60% of the national average. Its management is low-salaried: its three managing directors make only $20,000 a year each...
...conservative thing about Thom son is his money." Thomson encourages this view. He tells risque stories at stuffy editorial conferences, invites everyone to call him Roy, and rides the London underground more often than his blue Cadillac or Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Thom son's editors have full rein: "I've got people with a helluva lot more editorial ability than I've got, and I'd be doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys...