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Dean Rosovsky said yesterday it is possible the council will tighten the restrictions on independent study, but that its main concern is that Faculty members should have a clear sense of when they should give credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Council to Re-Examine Guides for Independent Work | 5/28/1976 | See Source »

...import controls and strict regulation of prices. But the government is opposed to curbs on imports, believing quite rightly that they would only provoke retaliation by other nations and choke off any chance that Britain has of an export-led recovery. Healey also wants to loosen rather than tighten price controls to give British industry sufficient profits to invest more heavily in badly needed new plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Crucial Showdown over Pay | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...extremely close margin--many of the committee members seem to have agreed with Gould that Nat Sci 36's grades are only nominally different from those in many other courses. But the committee's decision does suggest that many of the easily-graded Gen Ed courses will have to tighten up or move into the limbo in which Nat Sci 36 has just been placed...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Too Late To Take Nat Sci 36 | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

...laxman will tighten up for an encounter with Princeton Saturday at 2 p.m., hoping to extend their win streak to three...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Sports | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

...sharpest drop occurred in the area where housewives had been hit hardest: the meat case. Beef prices plunged 6% as cattlemen, reacting to dwindling demand, trimmed the sizes of their herds and pumped beef onto the market. Beef prices may well rebound in coming weeks as supplies begin to tighten again: when store prices begin to edge up, hamburger will probably rise relatively more than prime steak, largely because it had showed the biggest decline. The expected run-up in beef prices should end this summer as larger supplies of cattle come to market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Food Calms Down | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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