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Professors must solicit the Dean's permission if they leave the University for more than one week, and less than one week if their absence will affect scheduling. But faculty members who leave for a week or less increasingly have failed to request approval from Rosovsky first, the spokesman said...
...line, which is an indignity rarely bestowed on your average giraffe. But once inside, weird people try to do weird things to you. Like get you to settle outstanding term bill balances, denoted by the infamous "Red Dot" of measles fame. And multitudes of undergraduate organizations will try to solicit...
...Turkish relationship in the wake of the upheaval in Iran. It also illustrates the deterioration and current delicacy of that relationship. Before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the subsequent arms embargo imposed by Congress it would have been unthinkable for any government in Ankara to solicit a Soviet blessing for some thing like U-2 overflights. There is now widespread resignation in Washington that the damage done by the Cyprus crisis five years ago will never be fully repaired. Many in the Government see the U.S. as having abused a valued friendship. Says one U.S. diplomat: "People...
...commercial system. But of late many Chinese bureaucrats and factory managers involved in foreign trade have shown themselves readily disposed to partake of the myriad goodies that can accompany avid salesmanship. Officials who once would have rejected anything more expensive than a lapel pin now eagerly accept, and often solicit, valuable gratuities-everything from sophisticated machinery and heavy vehicles for their factories, to electronic calculators, cassette tape recorders, TV sets and even limousines for themselves...
About 20 to 30 students will staff the station without pay this summer, working with a $3000 budget. WHRB's usual operating costs are about $1200 per month. The summer staff will include a full-time salesman to solicit ad- vertisements, a job WHRB members are sometimes reluctant to take...