Word: reined
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...pays a lot of attention to the academic and holistic well-being of undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard,” says Shaun L. Rein, a TF for Historical Study A-74 and president of the Graduate Student Council...
Attempts to rein in the revelry continued into the eighteenth century. The College passed a rule in 1722 to prevent students from providing “distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith, upon pain of being fined twenty shilling and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors...
...controversy came during an ongoing effort to fill empty seats, consolidate schools and rein in the district’s budget deficit...
...than a new driver learning to parallel park. A former lawyer for big accounting firms and brokerages, he started out on the permissive side of debates over whether accounting and auditing functions should coexist, whether the accounting industry needs its own watchdog group and whether measures are needed to rein in stock-option abuse. In each case, he relented only after a public outcry. Now he says tougher action is needed to protect investors from bum analyst recommendations--action that goes beyond the rules the SEC approved just last week, rules that Pitt at one time regarded as sufficient...
...means of staying in power. Sukarno, Megawati's father, played it off against the communists and Muslims. Suharto exploited it to enrich his family and cronies. After he fell, in keeping with the more liberal political winds prevailing at the time, civilian authorities tried to rein in the generals...