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...There is no evidence that taking cram courses or studying review books gives any advantage that cannot be attained by conscientious study of the sample questions and tests contained in this Bulletin. The Law School Admission Council and Educational Testing Service do not sponsor, support, sanction, or have any relationship with courses, schools, or other publications purporting the improve LSAT scores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is There a Difference? | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...force this project on the Cambridge community, any way it can. Cambridge is his lifelong home and Danehy pictures himself as the knight in shining armor, come to save the innocent maiden. Like others, the mayor can perceive the long-term advantages that extension offers but he hesitates to sanction the "destruction of Mass. Ave. for five years or more...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Squeaky Wheel on the Red Line | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...Heath's new Tory government, which came to power in 1970, seems to have wanted to know as little as possible about the matter. Lord Home, Foreign Secretary under Heath, explains a bit lamely that the oil sanction issue "was never discussed." The Tories' see-no-evil, hear-no-evil policy apparently helped prompt the oil companies to drop the oil-swapping sham and return to direct shipments through Lourenço Marques. Not until a newly independent Mozambican government closed that door in 1976 did the trade stop. Today Rhodesia gets its oil directly from South Africa's supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Oilgate's Slick Business | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...little Irish group was discovering this hash, and we were into very sophisticated strings of long, comic invention because we were into this grass. And because our environment didn't sanction it, we were totally isolated with our experience and it was even more exciting creatively than...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...outlaw abortion, as it could not go against the 1975 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade--a decision that many legal scholars have attacked as weak, and which may well be subject to reversal in the future. Rather, it simply stated that the state would not sanction, with public funds, a procedure it had judged to be immoral. Forced to accept abortion as legal, it refused to tolerate it as right, or to force the public to pay for it with their tax money...

Author: By Peter Tufano, | Title: Against Abortion Funding | 9/15/1978 | See Source »

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