Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead--and we have been saying this until we're blue in the face--it should adopt a policy of carefully-chosen, lower-key, sure successes in order to slowly build its credibility and standing in the eyes of students. Running all sorts of circuses may look like a good idea for a new administration eager to make a splash, but the council has an uncanny talent for ending up a wet blanket...
...council's resolution, which passed with no opposition and 11 abstentions, "requests the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers of Harvard College to adopt a policy of selective purchasing which would prohibit any part of the University or its subsidiaries from buying products from or entering into contracts with oil companies which invest in Nigeria...
...HAVE NEVER HEARD A NOISE AS LOUD AS the silence of the many black men who came together without violence or hate. Even the suggestion that African Americans who embrace Minister Farrakhan's message must join the Nation of Islam or adopt anti-Semitism could not drown out the beauty of hundreds of thousands of black men united in peace, love and respect. All America should be proud. TONYA DELORES BARNES Stone Mountain, Georgia...
...revive the sagging fortunes of organized labor, AFL-CIO delegates elected insurgent John Sweeney to become the new president of the national labor federation. Sweeney beat out insider Thomas Donahue by pledging to rebuild union membership, open more labor posts to minorities and women and-perhaps most significant-adopt more militant tactics against cost-slashing employers. True to his word, Sweeney led a protest march through New York City's garment district the day after his election...
Well, what can Harvard do to increase transit time without decreasing class time? It could adopt a staggered class schedule. This means that as the day progresses, classes start later into the hour. This is implemented at other Ivies, like Cornell, which actually affords a 20 minute break between each class. Of course, the Cornell equivalent of going from the Science Center to the top of Lamont involves crossing tundras and scaling frozen waterfalls...