Word: retains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jaguaribe believes that Castelo Branco will retain only a "very small measure of acceptance." -- mainly form the ultra conservatives and the military. Even military support is shaky, since General Kruel, commander of a quarter of Brazil's army, publicly opposed Castel Branco's constitution changes...
Corsica's angry natives want more than tourism. "We want autonomy," says Philosopher-Farmer Zuccarelli, "with our own Parliament and our own budget." A delegation of Corsican officials, recently returned from a ten-day tour of autonomous Sicily and Sardinia (which still retain ties with Italy), felt the same. "Autonomy is the essential ingredient," said one. "This is not just evolution, but revolution," said another. Paris doubtless was recalling the words of Corsica's favorite son. Regarding Corsican separatism, Napoleon himself took a realistic view: "All these notions of national independence for a little island like Corsica!" exclaimed...
...share. McGraw-Hill plans no major changes in S. & P.'s operations. "You don't take a sound, successful business like Standard & Poor's and tamper with it," says Executive Vice President Robert Slaughter. As an institution in the financial world, S. & P. will retain its own offices in Wall Street, continue to issue its financial reports under its own name...
...newly-appointed Committee on House Assignments will soon begin meetings to fill in the details of the new policy. It should recommend prompt transition to computer tabulation, which nevertheless allows both student and Master to retain optional choice. A plan advanced by the Harvard Undergraduate Council last spring, for example, would permit students to rank as many or as few Houses as they wish, and Masters to request as many students as they wish. Then the choices would be matched by a computer, which would also consider distribution along the traditional lines. In this way, a maximum number of choices...
...description. Social Sciences 8 is an introduction to sociology and psychology, Social Sciences 111 a course in Far Eastern Civilization. If taking them constitutes a general education, why not permit students who have already assimilated the material to pursue it at a more advanced level, in courses that will retain the same broad interdepartmental nature...