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...more than 100 subpoenas, even the ice was shocked. "The Justice Department is anxious to take over our authority," grumbled ice Chairman George M. Stafford. Replies Kauper: "There is an increasing skepticism of the results of regulation. When you have your basic price structure fixed, you have lost a spur to innovate...
...meeting at the Harrington School was called by representatives of state and municipal agencies to hear tenant complaints and spur participation in the renovation process...
...basis; simultaneously because large numbers of undergraduates were taking leaves of absence the Houses accummulated deficits. The fact that A.C. would provide new funds triggered the interest of John T. Dunlop, former dean of the Faculty. The student activism of the 60s was yet another spur to action. The university was "much less sure with younger alumni of lasting loyalty by bringing them within traditional alumni programs," recalls Peter Shultz, general secretary of AHA. It was believed that "Younger alumni are more interested in maintaining their intellectual ties with the university than the older alumni...
There were no monumental accords signed; yet the meetings enhanced both leaders' images as international statesmen. Overall, even the minor agreements served to spur on the momentum of cordial top-level negotiations between the two countries that began with Nixon's visit to Moscow last year...
...judge from the experience of recent years at Harvard and at other Ivy League schools, merger promises to spur University efforts toward hiring more women at every level of staff and faculty position. Here, the non-merger agreement prompted the appointment of Deans Solomon and Austin to University Hall; the number of tenured women on the faculty has increased from one to a total of six over the past four years. Princeton, whose hiring of women faculty members has grown dramatically since the University began admitting women, is an encouraging example. Furthermore, the contributions of women who have already found...