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...council also discussed measures that would tighten up and improve the actual procedure that floundered when Theda Skocpol, then an associate professor, charged in 1980 that the Sociology Department discriminated on the basis of sex in refusing to recommend her for tenure...
...joke currently circulating in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) recounts an apocryphal exchange of cables between Hanoi and Moscow. "Tighten your belts," wires Moscow in response to a Vietnamese plea for increased economic aid. Hanoi's reply: "Please send belts...
...only did Harvard's 3-2 none tighten, but Crimson defenders became more aggressive Point guard Calvin Dixon nabbed three steals, and forward Ken Plutnicki grabbed two. As the cagers defensive pressure grew greater, the Minutemen became flustered, throwing the ball away and dribbing wildly...
Reagan is expected to ask to cut the allocation for Pell grants--direct gifts to needy students--from $2.3 billion to $1.4 billion next year, and to tighten eligibility rules so that the maximum qualifying family income is $14,000, rather than the current...
These and other projected cuts continue the pattern begun by the fall cuts, a pattern which has already forced Harvard and most other private institutions to tighten their belts and begin looking around urgently for alternative ways of stretching their dwindling aid resources. The Ivy League Committee on Financial Aid resolved at a meeting this fall to scrutinize the mechanisms by which their admissions offices determine a family's contribution to tuition; they acted as much to help strapped families that might be unable to pay their evaluated fees under the new federal strictures, as to make sure the colleges...