Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Harvard has suffered embarrassing, if not downright humiliating losses to three league teams (Cornell, Penn and Columbia), they all occurred in the first half of the season and on rugged courses, long on treacherous footing and short on the speedy stretches that many of Harvard's track specialists prefer...
...oriented schools or military academies. A nearby college that keeps watch on student activities is Gordon College, a small nondenominational Christian school in Wenham, Mass. Drinking, smoking and social dancing are entirely prohibited on campus, although students often do all three in town. Despite the seemingly tight codes, students prefer the rules that way, Steven W. Larson, associate dean of students, says. A poll conducted last year showed that half of the students did not want even dancing on campus. "We come from a fairly fundamentalist background," Larson says. "We are really attempting to create an academic community, with both...
...very loose, but that makes it very enjoyable," Miller, a center said. The team practices on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, "if you can show up, "and between 50 and 70 players join the club during the season, Schember said. "We get a lot of ex-football players who prefer the attitude here. Anybody's welcome to come out, we get divinity students and all sorts of athletes...
DAVID GROVE: "I applaud," says Grove, a private consultant and senior economic adviser to Marine Midland Bank. "A slow and gradual approach to curbing inflation would not be very effective. I prefer a quick and dirty approach, and the Fed's actions are very much along that line. They will give the domestic public and foreigners the sense that we really are going to come to grips with inflation." Grove concedes that a dramatic and determined" credit squeeze would depress business activity and push up the unemployment rate. He also thinks the stock market had good reason to flop...
...tour of the area to re-examine U.S. policy. Among Habib's still secret recommendations: providing generous aid through multilateral organizations like the Caribbean Group for Cooperation in Economic Development, which includes several European nations as well as Venezuela, Japan, Brazil and Canada. Though some Caribbean nations would prefer unilateral assistance from the U.S., a multinational approach would short-cut the resentment that stemmed from John Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, which many Caribbeans viewed as an attempt by the U.S. to play a "big daddy" role...