Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COMSTOCK (1923-1943)--The practice of having Harvard professors repeat lectures given at Harvard to students at Radcliffe is abolished when the two schools sign an agreement opening all courses to Radcliffe students and making many classes coeducational...
Cavazos' boosters say his determination to forge agreement rather than dictate policy has been misinterpreted as a sign of weakness. "Cavazos has brought a willingness to listen and a less combative tone than we've had in the past," says Wilmer Cody, Louisiana's superintendent of education. "It's a style that's needed right now." Specifically, Cavazos acted to change a much criticized policy on federal student-loan defaults, projected to reach $1.8 billion this year. Bennett had made the draconian proposal to bar all schools with default rates of 20% or higher from participating in the program...
...even if an agreement on conventional parity does come off, we need to know the nature of the forces that would be left. The tank-production anomaly, for instance, indicates that we'd face a leaner but meaner Warsaw Pact force when all is said and done...
...Some who are sensitive to the internal German political situation, like Senator Sam Nunn, are urging that the West indulge the Germans' desire for immediate SNF talks, but would mandate that whatever nuclear agreement is reached not be implemented until the conventional-force agreement is carried out. Isn't that an acceptable compromise...
...than 90% Catholic. Last week, however, Poland became the first East bloc nation to recognize the church. The parliament approved a law that permits the church to operate businesses, schools and hospitals, and to run radio and television stations. The action came in the wake of a power- sharing agreement reached between the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski and the Solidarity labor movement, which has strong ties to the church. Catholic leaders have played a key role in negotiating the agreement with Solidarity and the promise of relatively open elections, set for next month...