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...more draconian measures. He ended the private university's undergraduate education program and told the graduate schools of nursing, law, education and medicine to pay their way. He stopped admitting virtually any warm undergraduate body that showed up, and began cutting enrollment from 12,000 toward 8,500, setting stiffer standards for entering freshmen. At the same time, Miami established schools of communications, architecture and international studies. Associate Provost James Ash openly admits that the purpose of the changes has been to sell the school to a higher grade of students. "It's not that we're virtuous," he says...
Some students viewed the deaths with concern, others with callousness. Said Jimmy Hain, 21, of Farmingdale, (N.Y.), Community College: "Either stay on the first floor or get a parachute. I always pass out before I get that crazy." But the resorts are trying to restrain the sprees with stiffer law enforcement. Florida is raising its drinking age from 19 to 21, and Fort Lauderdale now prohibits open containers of booze in cars or alongside A1A. Still, the law and the weather did not always work well together. Heavy rains kept some vacationers inside hotels and motels, where maximum-capacity regulations...
...track photographs, will have to be dug out of storage. Worse, although the Supreme Court's Miranda decision was not handed down until four years after the killing, local rulings on its retroactive application may permit Hillery's attorney to exclude statements made by his client after his arrest. Stiffer modern rules on evidence gathering may also apply...
...with, including mortgage payments on second homes and taxes paid to state and local governments. The personal exemption would be raised from $1,080 to $2,000 for taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions and to $1,500 for those who do. The bill would also impose a stiffer minimum tax on corporations and eliminate many business breaks. When Rostenkowski finally produced his version, Reagan vacillated for two weeks before issuing a lukewarm endorsement...
Harvard should face a slightly stiffer test this afternoon when it hosts Navy at 4 p.m. at Hemenway...