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Word: requesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approval of the academy's request hinges on Harvard's plans for the estate's other three acres, Kenneth Basler, a member of the Agassiz Neighborhood Planning Group, said yesterday...

Author: By Miriam A. Pawel, | Title: Building Proposal Sparks Opposition | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

Rivera cited Foster's experience because his case demonstrates that Afro faculty members "who draw students are not being rewarded." Invited to teach Afro courses under a one-year contract with the department, Foster will not return to Afro next year, despite his explicit request to Southern that his visiting professor contract be renewed. Foster will confine his academic duties to teaching courses at the Graduate School of Education next year, where he also worked this year on a joint program that included the Afro affiliation. Rivera calls Foster's experiences within the department "the Ephraim Isaac case" of this...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A department with no professors | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

Harvard's Asian-Americans petitioned the University this year for official recognition as a minority group. Although the Department of Health, Education and Welfare does give Asian-Americans minority status, the University argued that the group is already adequately represented in the community here, and refused the request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playing the numbers games | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...convicted for delaying the P-3 facility. I would like to set the record straight. The Cambridge City Council did not at any time stop or delay construction of the P-3 lab at Harvard. A building permit for the proposed labs was issued within 24 hours of the request by the University. The simple fact is that Harvard had not received internal clearance or approval from the National Institutes of Health prior to the issue being raised before the Cambridge City Council. Even if Mayor Alfred Vellucci had never raised the issue of recombinant DNA research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Irked Scientists | 6/14/1977 | See Source »

Fuqua took its case to federal court in Hartford, requesting 1) that Smith be made to consider its offer, and 2) that Avis' annual meeting be postponed, to block Smith's efforts to ram through antitakeover amendments. The postponement request was rejected, but Fuqua was granted a hearing for the week of June 13 on an appeal to get Trustee Smith to reconsider its purchase offer. At the Avis annual meeting last week, Smith's antitakeover amendments were adopted. Fuqua executives believe they will eventually be permitted to acquire the company, but the trustbusters are gloomy. Almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTITRUST: Fighting for the Wheel | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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