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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assuage these students' fears. "I don't see anyone on the committee who is a real ally of Afro-American Studies," Brutus says. "These people have a mainstream perspective," he adds. And Daniel Robinson '79, a former concentrator, says, "I am skeptical--let me see the results. They've set up committees before...
Beginning with the freshman entering in the fall of 1982, students must take eight half-year courses spread among the five areas. This year freshmen must take any two Core courses as part of the transitional Gen Ed requirement. Aside from these five areas, the Core eventually will set requirements in mathematics, foreign language and expository writing...
...towns, inhabited partly by whores and thieves, have sprung up near the sites, and many workers live in unsanitary and unsavory conditions. At first, Ludwig relied entirely on Brazilian contractors to supply laborers, and some of the bosses exploited their men and skimmed off their wages. Now Ludwig has set up safeguards to ensure that the workers receive their full pay, which averages about $12 daily, or three times the national rural average...
...months, claims that he can actually argue with him over decisions. Ludwig is beginning to accept a substantial dilution of his authority. He has created an eight-man committee that exercises an overall policymaking role. Also, Ludwig has willed Jari to a Swiss-based cancer institute that he has set up, and ultimately it will use profits from the project to promote medical research...
...take a hard line on Chrysler, casting aspersions on Chrysler's tax code shenanigans, and substituting them with their own plan. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller said that the government might aid Chrysler with a guaranteed loan of $750 million, but only after the corporation made internal sacrifices and set out a sound plan of recovery. President Carter, worried about recession and unemployment, agreed with Miller...