Word: amendment
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Harvard has never come under heavy federal pressure to implement the Buckley Amendment. David B. Matthews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and no champion of the bill, has been sitting on departmental guidelines for its implementation for months, and President Ford reportedly plans to ask Congress to amend the law, easing its requirements for institutions of higher learning...
...have no choice but to oppose as vigorously as we can an attempt, in effect, by Common Cause to amend the Constitution, and make us something less than representatives of the American people," Scott said. In later response, Guido asked, "Why should the taxpayer bear the burden of all this propaganda...
...particular, the council wants to amend the clauses in the standards for magna and cum laude degrees that equate pass-fail and failing grades in non-concentration courses...
Marquand said another solution to the problem would be for the Faculty to amend the new regulations to make them effective for members of the class of 1978 rather than for the class of 1979 as currently planned, Marquand said...
Last year President Ford asked Congress to amend the act so that higher-sulfur coal could be legally burned. The Senate responded by writing a new bill that would actually tighten the standards further. Meanwhile, the coal and utility industries have embarked on several new ways to satisfy...