Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean of Dartmouth College wishes to remind students that the Carnival is an event for the Dartmouth Community and its invited guests only. Students arriving in Hanover without a local host will not be accomodated and cannot expect access to parties and sleeping spaces."--Dartmouth Dean of Students in a letter to various colleges, as printed in Harvard's OCS newsletter...
...situation in 1980, the chief flaw of the old Student Assembly was its utter lack of power. As the Assembly was unrecognized, it had no formal access to administrators. It also lacked funding. Thus, there was nothing it could do for students, who then, logically, saw no reasons to support...
...Marcos that "we love your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process." In 1982 the Philippine leader was welcomed with open arms at the White House. What stood uppermost in U.S. calculations at that time was the fact that Marcos controlled something that the U.S. badly needs: access to Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Base, two of the most important American military facilities in the Pacific. Says a State Department official: "The bottom line always was, and always will be, those bases...
...year to the Philippines for the use of the facilities. To keep them running, it injects about $350 million into the local economy, providing jobs for 53,200 Filipinos. Yet the terms, if not the arrangement itself, are almost certain to change. President Marcos said last week that access to Clark and Subic should be regulated by a formal treaty, and he has hinted that the U.S. payment should quintuple in 1988, when renewal talks begin. His opponent, Corazon Aquino, has pledged to permit an American presence until 1991. While insisting that she is keeping her options open, she says...
...four options submitted to the two governments last October by competing groups. The winning proposal envisages two tubes, each 24 ft. in diameter, through which trains will shuttle passengers and vehicles between Cheriton and Frethun. A third tunnel, 15 ft. wide, is to provide ventilation and access for service personnel. The 31-mile- long main tubes (underwater length will be 23 miles) are to be dug through the chalk deposits 131 ft. below the Channel floor...