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...gold advocates have won few converts among leading economists. Opponents argue that a gold system would be far too rigid for the modern international economy. Says Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources...
...decision to reject the Screw ad, like similar decisions in the past, was reached at a staff meeting where all staff members--news, editorial, photo and business--could participate. The Crimson has no set, rigid, policy for deciding which ads should be rejected--it has made all such decisions ad hoc at these meetings. They have served over the years to clarify just why the Crimson occasionally refuses to print an ad and to test the decisions against several objections. The objections have fallen into a few categories, which include...
...year-old government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha has been edging cautiously toward reform of South Africa's rigid system of enforced racial separation. It has advocated the abolition or modification of many so-called petty apartheid regulations, such as the hated pass laws that restrict blacks' movement, and those forbidding racial mixing in public places such as restaurants and sports facilities. Botha has also floated vague promises of better conditions for the country's blacks and has granted some tangible concessions: legalized black labor unions and increased spending on black education. Limited as such reforms have...
...major right-wing challenge to Botha came from the twelve-year-old Herstigte (Reformed) Nasionale Party, which strongly advocates continued white privilege, black subjection and rigid racial segregation. Though the H.N.P. was unable once again to gain a single parliamentary seat in the election, its adherents more than quintupled their vote totals, to 191,000, and cut painfully into National Party majorities in many districts. H.N.P. Leader Jaap Marais, for example, challenged Nationalist Andries Treurnicht, the political boss of the Transvaal, and came within 1,500 votes of unseating...
...rugby, chalkboard talk and rigid discipline is left to teams like Army and Navy. Against UMass, in typical rugby fasion, 13 Crimson ruggers ran onto the field just 30 seconds before kickoff after what Keith Oberg said "was a longer than expected stay at Smith...