Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must oppose discrimination, uphold Harvard's academic integrity and support greater access to higher education. Toward these ends, we call on the council to rescind its recommendation and the faculty and administration to hold to their past decision. Keep ROTC off this campus...
...flesh of a crocodile ground into powder and mixed with sweet wine ("Works miracles," he promised). Some Europeans taught that eating an apple that had been soaked in the sweat of your lover's armpit was a sure means of seduction -- provided, of course, that you had prior access to your lover's armpit...
...flexible working conditions. Freedom-minded men and women alike have recognized that technology and the restructuring of the economy, which so often work against individual peace of mind, can actually work for the small entrepreneur. The same computers and fax machines that torment corporate drudges allow small businesses access to world markets...
Under the original agreement reached last November, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries would design the fighter (top speed: 1,300 m.p.h.) in cooperation with St. Louis-based General Dynamics. The deal guaranteed U.S. contractors 40% of the $1.2 billion development budget and allowed access to the secrets of advanced Japanese radar gear and composite materials. But Bush wants further assurances that American firms will receive 40% of the $5 billion to $10 billion in production contracts for as many as 170 fighters, which are to be deployed in the late 1990s...
...Soviets amply rewarded Philby for his services: a lavish apartment (by Moscow standards), chauffeurs, a plummy desk job at KGB headquarters. Yet the only perk he really cared for, Knightley notes, was access to artifacts of his homeland: pipes from Jermyn Street, books (he liked Dick Francis' mysteries), magazines, the Times of London (whose daily crossword puzzle he regularly solved in 15 minutes...