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Martha Laurence, a spokesman for the Neighborhood Ten Association, said "This issue is one of many that is contributing to a growing support in our group for stiffer sign control...

Author: By Clare M. Mchugh, | Title: Crimson Travel Sues to Retain Sign | 12/8/1981 | See Source »

...generate support for stiffer handgun control laws, the National Coalition to Ban Handguns has declared this week, October 25-31, National End Handgun Violence Week. In conjunction with the national effort, a new student group--the Harvard Coalition for Handgun Control--has planned speeches, a debate, a fund-raising dance and a petition drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Handgun Epidemic | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...they ambled along the wooded lanes near Mitterrand's country home in Latche, south of Bordeaux. If they walked with a lighter step, it was perhaps because recently each had cause to help the other. Mitterrand was grateful to the Chancellor for supporting the devaluation, which imposes stiffer competition upon West German business. For his part, Schmidt already had Mitterrand to thank for publicly backing his battle against West German pacifists opposed to the deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Bitter Taste of Reality | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...looks lean and fit. He claims an excess of 5 Ibs., but has visibly avoided Rabbit's paunch. He was jogging while writing Rabbit Is Rich but has stopped, at least for a while. He retains an interest in skiing, although he finds "it gets increasingly scary, the stiffer I feel and the more fragile." Social life consists of a round of dinner parties and frequent trips to Boston to see friends, ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crisis of Confidence RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...challenge was a little stiffer last year after the release of a preliminary report by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and special assistant to President Bok. The so-called "Klitgaard report" stated that Blacks and other minorities who do well on aptitude tests do not perform as well academically as their scores would seem to predict. It also envisions the possibility that Blacks might be more comfortable at a "lesser" university where their intellectual abilities would more closely match those of other students...

Author: By Adam M. Gottlieb, | Title: Overcoming the Klitgaard Fallout | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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