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Early this year BBC named Andrew Todd, a determined Scots purist, its television news editor, and he set out to stiffen the network's upper lip again. Todd scrapped the two-man format and banned clichés. He spotted Rippon reading bulletins on the network's late-night newscast and promoted her to prime time. Now she reigns as one of BBC's four newscasters, who appear alone in regular rotation...
...control legislation, but it contains several surprises for any lawmaker who examines it carefully. Although Clem used much of the language of the state-wide law to write his bill, the home-rule version that the council finally approved contains additions and revisions that extend the state law and stiffen some of its provisions. One change the council included was a rewording of the requirements for evicting a tenant. The Cambridge plan shifts the burden of proof of malfeasance onto the landlord's shoulders, and demands that only when the tenant has exhausted "all meritorious defences" can he be thrown...
Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty, says the legislation is meant only to stiffen the requirements for summas and cum laudes in General Studies. Ever since 82 per cent of the Class of 1974 received some kind of honors, there has been a feeling in the Faculty that honors are awarded too easily. About a year ago the Faculty voted to reword the rules governing them...
...fact, believe that the South African withdrawal-and UNITA's ouster of Western journalists from its territory-may be designed to mask continued South African involvement. The suspected strategy would entail a forward movement of detachments of South African soldiers camouflaged as mercenaries. Their job would be to stiffen the UNITA resistance and provide a holding and screening force to cover the re-entry of South African army regulars into the battle...
...adds that recent moves by the Faculty to stiffen honors requirements here represent the most tangible offshoot of the growing sentiment against the grade-inflationary trend...