Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that rent control can remain indefinitely in effect in Cambridge. The state's home rule provision limit its duration to four years. After that, the law must be renewed. Though the rent control referendum has remained generally quiet on the subject of renewal, the strong stress their literature places upon rent control as a solution to the housing problem, and private comments on the possibility of renewal, indicate that the campaign envisions an attempt to keep rent control in effect for a long term. As such, it is clearly a misguided effort...
...also defended student dissenters during last spring's riots, underscoring the fact that, in a land where individual rights have all too often been abused, he puts unusual stress on human liberty. As German President, he will have little real power. Nonetheless, he can exert a substantial influence on the tone of West German life. That influence is likely to be unorthodox and refreshing. Though most West Germans worship the auto as a status symbol, Heinemann neither drives nor owns a car. Nor does he have the customary built-in German reflex about respect for authority. When a reporter...
...Stress the importance of a student's development over three years rather than his achievements or failures after...
...substantial advantage in competing for jobs with graduates of other schools. Employers turn to Harvard now because of the quality of education here. Nevertheless, Harvard prematurely labels a large number of students as failures, giving a prospective employer the idea that these students are mediocre. The proposed system would stress that all Harvard graduates will make very competent lawyers. In addition, the top students here--if not most students here--will be able to compile sufficiently impressive portfolios of class work to compete at no disadvantage with top students from other schools...
...obviously has plenty of bureaucratic strength behind it, and therefore the arguments over poverty in America will continue to be arguments between reform-mongers and other reform mongers. Some reform-mongers will be more activist than others; some will street jobs more than political readjustment; others will stress political adjustments more than jobs. That is where the debate is now, and it looks like that is where the debate will stay...