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...with the powerful Trades Union Congress to resolve the dispute. The T.U.C., which represents 10 million British workers, has promised that if Heath would make a settlement with the 247,000 miners for a wage rise above the government's anti-inflationary Stage III guidelines, other unions would refrain from citing it as a precedent for their demands. Heath considers such a commitment necessary to hold the line on Britain's 10% inflation rate...
...what is probably an over-identification with said revered institution. This is too bad from an undergraduate's point of view: I had to ask someone in the men's room during intermission what in the world Ames court competition was; and it was hard to follow the constant refrain of "Langdell this, Langdell that" which runs through the show when I only get a vague image of dusty awe from the name instead of the wealth of associations the law-predominated audience obviously harbored the other night...
...urge Harvard followers to refrain from these excesses, in the hope that we can establish a standard of positive support for our team and courtesy for the visitors which will be followed at every college...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students has requested that all students who signed up for Africa Fast Day two weeks ago refrain from eating their evening meal tonight. The rebate of this meal will be forwarded to a fund for the relief of West African drought victims...
...heritable, let us say, as physical height, but more heritable than any other broad human psychological trait yet measured. Without a doubt, the confusion about I.Q.'s heritability is the controversy's most regrettable distortion. Geneticists who, in the technical literature, acknowledge I.Q.'s large genetic component refrain from adding their findings or judgments to the public debate, no doubt for fear of having articles like Benda's written about them...