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Despite all the pitfalls outlined above and the stringent standards of American medical schools, Harvard graduates have been outstandingly successful in getting into medical school. An average 95 per cent of Harvard applicants per class are admitted...
...Conservative government had closed its eyes too long to a mounting trade deficit that by year's end seemed certain to top $2 billion, almost equivalent to the gold reserves of the entire sterling bloc (see charts}. Theoretically, few economists quarreled with Wilson's first, stringent measures to close the gap: a "temporary" 15% tax on virtually all imports reaching Britain, plus tax incentives for British industrialists who boost exports. Practically, however, Wilson could hardly have acted more ineptly...
When the ad department of Redbook Magazine began a campaign in trade publications and the financial sections of newspapers, it boldly set stringent limits on the editorial product that bills itself "for young adults." Said each of the ads: "Some girls are too old for Redbook. 18 to 34: These are the Redbook Years." In the accompanying cartoons. Under 34 dreamed of shopping sprees, Over 34 was a tight-pursed dowager just this side of her next facelift...
Recognizing this squeeze on foreign study, most colleges have drastically expanded their junior-year-abroad programs. In the majority of cases, the student enrolls directly in a foreign university, but remains under the stringent supervision of a reliable American sponsorship program, the most popular of which are run by Wayne State, Sweetbriar, and Indiana universities...
...access to the kind of secret documents that Jenkins handled almost routinely. Unlike Walter Jenkins, who was given a slipshod security screening by the Secret Service after Lyndon became Vice President in 1961 and no screening at all after he became President, Ike's aide underwent a stringent screening and thus was filtered out before he ever served...