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...adopts the new option, Harvard should make clear that it will remain just that--an option. And in spite of the prediction figures, it should restrain its public enthusiasm for the Achievement Tests and be extra careful to look at the scores in light of students' high school backgrounds. Otherwise, the Harvard name could spur colleges across the nation to take a giant step backwards...
...only Congressional action passed despite Nixon's veto in 1973 (eight others failed), the Resolution possesses a dubious honor at best. On the one hand, it was an honest attempt by Congress to restrain a President who had almost certainly overstepped his Constitutional bounds. But on the other hand this legislation must be seen as a manifestation of the time in which it was written. As such it cannot be viewed as an objective piece of Constitutional adjustment. While the intentions behind it--achievement of a consensus of use of American force, guarantee of debate on potentially dangerous actions, fulfillment...
...word was uttered about the obsolescence of heavy American industry, the spread of high technology and the growth of overseas competition, which together have cost thousands of Americans their jobs. Despite their claim to be a "Coalition of Conscience," the marchers on the Mall were not proposing to restrain their demands in favor of less fortunate groups or even to work for something we used to call the national interest...
...drive up rents and increase its profits. Great for them, but what about the meat packer that has to pay that rent every month? So now, we have rent control. I am the deciding vote that makes it law. I have used my power as an elected official to restrain the collective power of the entire real estate industry in the City of Cambridge. They hate me. Every election they organize to defeat me. But on the first of every month, I know there are 21,000 Cambridge households that have a better chance of making ends meet because...
...concerted international effort was being mounted in an attempt to stop it. In a break with the free-market principles of the Reagan Administration, the U.S. last week joined France, Japan, Switzerland and West Germany in pumping an estimated $2 billion into foreign-exchange markets in an effort to restrain the rampaging dollar. For most of the previous two years, the Administration had been content to watch as the dollar persistently climbed in value...