Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after year, charging us for scores of meals we never eat. It's understandable that the dining service employees need to be paid, even on Oxfam night. But there are many creative, yet simple, ways we could donate meals and money to Oxfam that would take this into account. Only the greedy and apathetic dining service hierarchy stubbornly refuses to even consider them. Instead, they insist that the Oxfam fast be a college-wide, one-night-only event...
...Kwame Nkrumah, who died in Rumania in 1972. Gullible investors were told that the Oman Ghana Trust Fund, to be used for economic development in Ghana, had shadowy origins and was funded with billions of dollars in banks in Switzerland and Liechtenstein; the story was backed up with an account number and a vaguely worded letter from the Union Bank of Switzerland...
...export-led economy by boosting local consumption. During his scheduled three-hour session with President Reagan, the Prime Minister was expected to explain how his government would translate those aims into policy. Said Nakasone: "Japan can no longer be an island of solitary prosperity, with a large current account imbalance depending on exports...
Last Wednesday's Crimson carries an account and photograph of a section of my course Historical Studies A-12 meeting in the shantytown in front of University Hall. It also carried a letter from a student in the section objecting to the location of the section. I was asked by students whether this was appropriate or not. The following is what I said before lecture on Thursday...
...faculty appointments. In fact, appointments procedures throughout the University make provision for considering each candidate's teaching skills. Nevertheless, critics often reply that if Harvard really cared about instruction it would award tenure to outstanding teachers even though they have not produced distinguished research. This reaction fails to take account of all that is involved in making wise tenure decisions. In universities, teaching goes on at many levels--in undergraduate classrooms, in the mentoring of new generations of teachers and scholars and through the dissemination of published scholarship to audiences beyond the campus. Each of these functions is important...