Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. Townsend-Greenspan, a consulting firm headed by Alan Green, span, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, calculates that the rise may really be a mere 3%, and warns that even that puny an increase will not be achieved unless the dollar steadies enough to remove the threat...
...seemed that members of Congress would only be interested in study results if the Commision told them what they wanted to hear. In its 1972 report, the Commission found that intermittent or experimental use of the drug was relatively safe, that marijuana did not pose a major health threat to the public, and that, while cannabis was not wholly innocuous, only chronic heavy users were at risk. The report, though, went unheeded, and THC remains a Schedule I drug...
...leading flu experts met in Geneva at the World Health Organization. Their main concern was to help develop a vaccine against the reborn strain of flu now ravaging the Soviet Union. Though cases have been reported in China, Finland and Czechoslovakia, A/USSR or Russian flu is still only a threat to the rest of the world. The flu now sweeping 41 states is mostly another new variant called A/Texas...
What is "harassment"? What is "grave disrespect for the dignity of others"? Is a phone campaign to inform Dean Rosovsky of student opinion concerning Dean Fox's housing plan any of the above? This provision is sufficiently vague and broad as to represent a serious threat to political protest. It could be interpreted to apply to almost any political action. No similarly broad provision can be found in the U.S. Constitution...
...appeals board that the reform proposals call for also poses a great threat. Three faculty members and two students, whose selection process is nowhere mentioned in the proposals, could decide to re-hear a case on grounds of, "1) improper procedure; 2) discovery of new evidence; and 3) punishment inappropriate to the offense." Clearly, almost any case could be "fit" into one of these categories, and because of its tiny size the board would be especially dominated by Faculty opinion. The three professors on the board would be able unilaterally to override the CRR and pass judgments of their...