Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andreu Mas-Colell, the new associate dean for affirmative action, has faced tougher opponents than the Harvard bureaucracy in his 45 years...
...Colell was appointed a month ago as the first associate dean for affirmative action in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
According to Mas-Colell, progress will not be achieved on affirmative action with strident rhetoric or draconian penalties, but through quiet, behind-the-scenes maneuvering...
Although there are several characters in the show, Jeeves, or Wooster, is always the narrator. The humor that Duke uses in portraying them is definitely the glue that keeps this show together. Both Jeeves'--and Wooster's--running commentary on the present action keeps the audience roaring...
...National Academy of Sciences that found that at least 50 million acres of rainforest a year are lost--an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined. These areas are home to about half the five to 10 million plant and animal species on the globe. Unless action is taken, the report says, by the year 2000 one-fifth of the remaining rainforest will disappear, destroying about half-a-million species...