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...national convention of the Americans for Democratic Action. Over the past eight months he has called for, among other things, increased tax credits for big industry (to encourage more efficient energy use), and higher gasoline taxes to cut consumption. In the area of international affairs, he has supported a tougher American stance in response to Soviet aggression...
...Federal Government is now beginning to face the problem. The FBI has given 500 of its 7,800 agents a course in computer-crime detection. A bill before Congress would provide new and tougher penalties for computer tampering: up to 15 years in prison and fines as high as $50,000. When he introduced the legislation last year, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois warned that computer theft could be as high as $3 billion per year. Even with stepped-up law enforcement, companies themselves will have to be much more vigilant. The MAPS scandal showed how simple...
...declining number of teenagers in New York and Massachussetts, modifications in the Early Action program, and tougher admissions standards resulting from the larger applicant pool may have contributed to the drop, Fizsimmons said last week. But he agreed that these factors pale somewhat in light of Yale University's record-breaking 800-application increases...
Handlin said when he became a University professor he was asked to take on various directorships, but he added. "Bud may be a tougher character than...
THIS FALL HAS not been easy for President Bok, but it might've been tougher. The most vocal protest on campus from non-minority students has centered on rather parochial issues. In fact, a student group named GUERILLA achieved its most effective demonstration early in exam period, when it organized a "study-in" at Lamont, managing within a few days to gain an all-night study area--the Greenhouse Cafe...