Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Each dormitory president is required to notify the president of the Radcliffe Government Association, the House Heads, and the RGA Administrative Vice-President at the beginning of each term what her dormitory's parietal hours...
...dictionary not withstanding, "parietal hours" is the Harvard-Radcliffe term used for those hours during which students may entertain guests of the opposite sex in their rooms...
Parietal rules, which, as the the Radcliffe Redbook of rules described them, were "the Harvard-Radcliffe term used for those hours during which students may entertain students of the opposite sex in their rooms" took effect...
...expansion of federal prisons, as well as recent changes in the law, will ease the burden on hard-pressed state and local officials by making it easier to charge drug offenders under federal statutes. Federal prosecutors are instructed to avoid offering plea bargains in such cases, making a prison term harder to dodge. Says White House aide Roger Porter, who helped design the package: "The people who are committing these crimes are not dumb. They know what the chances are of getting caught and getting sent to prison, and as we increase those odds, we can change their behavior...
...judges have shaved sentences to help make room for more prisoners, the length of the average prison term has declined from 18 months to one year. Criminals, quickly recycled back to the streets, bring the deadly code of prison conduct with them. "Prison works to reduce crime only if you don't let the inmates out -- ever," says Jerry Miller, a former corrections official who directs the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives in Arlington...