Word: reports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming from the dean of the College's office and not from a Faculty directive, the study is a one-sided proposal and carries no official weight, as does, for instance, the Fainsod report. Thus, after it is completed, Dean May must lobby for it within the Faculty, solely on the merits of the recommendations and the arguments in favor of them...
...attempt to unify these views may easily degenerate into a hodge-podge of compromising half-steps-manifested in a general report that comments on Harvard education but makes no recommendations, or a set of specific, yet conflicting proposals that follow no cohesive pattern...
...practice holds responsible for terrorist acts any person who knows of the presence of guerrillas and fails to report it to the authorities. Depending on their political perspective, some critics have compared this to the policies followed by the Nazis in Europe, the French in Algeria and the U.S. in Viet Nam. Though the Israelis have neither killed nor left Arabs homeless in the punitive actions, their decision to adopt the practice brought condemnation from the United Nations General Assembly's Social Committee. A resolution urging the Israelis to desist was passed 51 to 11, with fifty countries abstaining...
...this month, a grand jury in Jackson, Miss., charged that the state insurance commission is "in the pockets of the insurance companies." The jurors added: "The people of Mississippi can only expect to be skinned by these companies." Last week a grand jury at Pascagoula handed in another critical report. Most of the controversy centers around Commission Member Erskine Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm, the commission...
...himself, Blythe, author of a novel and a number of television plays, moved nearby 14 years ago. Unlike other outsiders, he found much more than birds and quiet. Akenfield is the absorbing result. It is remarkable both as literature-a kind of Suffolk Spoon River-and as a sociological report on a par with Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, a journalistic study of poverty in 19th century Britain...