Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Harvard, Thomas Hollis, Isaac Watts, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton, Haward Mumford Jones, and an enormous host of others nad not thought it worthwhile for an educated person to form a private library, there would not now be at Harvard ready access for students and professors to what you correctly call "one of the best and biggest library systems in the world." Just look at the bookplates in many of the books you use in that system and you should quickly see that its existence does not represent some kind of bibliographical parthenogenesis...
Only some of the spending actually has worked to improve the quality of health care. The growth of private and public insurance coverage, for example, has brought access to many who previously did not have it; advances in technology that have increased the power of medicine to prolong and enhance life have required additional funds; health care has taken on new assignments, like mental health, drug abuse and alcohol abuse. And the pay of health care workers has finally been brought up to the level of other industries...
...importantly, the ACSR, a group which is supposed to represent the University community in advising the Corporation, has chosen in the past to act behind closed doors, withholding the most basic information about its deliberations from the constituency it represents. The ACSR has steadfastly refused to grant the press access to its meetings. Last year, the committee did not release statements explaining its recommendations to the Harvard community until several weeks after the Corporation had accepted or rejected those recommendations. The committee has even refused to make public the votes by which it decides on its recommendations. By operating...
...Hebrew University, would remain Israeli, connected to the Jewish state by a strip of land. The rest of East Jerusalem would be linked to the entity and could even serve as its administrative capital, just as West Jerusalem serves as Israel's capital. In any formula, unhindered access to the holy shrines-which would be administered by the religions to which they are sacred-is guaranteed...
...wood stoves-$150 million worth-will be installed in the U.S. this year alone. Riteway Manufacturing Co., of Harrisonburg, Va., one of the leading makers of wood-burning stoves, has doubled production in the past year, and is preparing to build a new plant. At the Whole Earth Access Store in Berkeley, one of the West Coast's biggest retailers, October stove sales were five times greater than last October's; in 1976 they sold $30,000 worth, five times more than in 1975. Roughly 10% of all households in Oregon have bought wood-burning stoves in just...