Word: week
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS WEEK, Harvard will embark on the latest and largest of its fund-raising ventures, a colossal campaign to raise $250 million over five years that officials say is their last recourse to fight inflation. As the campaign charges across the nation, moving from east coast to west, and from big donors to small, it will be easy to sit back and watch the money roll into Harvard's coffers...
...injury to Burke St. John (who returned against Dartmouth last week) especially upset Brown, a teammate on both the football and baseball squads where St. John plays shortstop. Brown said, "There's a kid that's been very very close to me. An injury like that staggers a team, especially after an opening day win. Losing a player of his caliber--it has to take a toll on the team...
However, students will have to pay to work on a new Digital VAX 11 780 machine, which will be ready for use next week, Law said...
MANY MONTHS AFTER students asked the University to support consumer student boycotts of J.P. Stevens and Nestle Inc. products officially, the Faculty Council last week ruled that the University should in no case recognize a student boycott even if a majority voted for a boycott in a referendum. The Council claims a University sanction of a boycott would violate the University's academic freedom. If President Bok and the Corporation go along with the ruling, the University will once again have succeeded in dodging a moral issue, as it has in the past in its policies on investments and gifts...
...Milton Friedman who are among the only Americans with reason to rejoice over Volcker's moves, waffled. For the first time a financial official seemed to be taking their advice to heart; conservative monetarists have called for direct control of the money supply for years. But Friedman wrote a week after the program's announcement that the new Fed policy had to be fully carried through or it wouldn't work. In other words, if the policy reduces inflation then the monetarists will take credit, but if it doesn't they can say their ideas failed because Volcker adulterated them...