Word: annexations
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...long ago Radcliffe was simply the "Harvard annex," and we've hardly come all that far since. The Committee on the Status of Women recently reported that women-both faculty and students-feel they are "intruders in a male institution." Such a feeling is hardly surprising, shared as it is by many Harvard officials who protest against educating women at the "expense" of men. Sadly enough, it is not unlikely that the Harvard dean who described Radcliffe alumnae as "bright, well-educated, but relatively dull housewives" was expressing the feelings of many of his colleagues as well...
However, large numbers of Chinese Nationalist troops supported by the United States remained after 1962, along with Thai and South Vietnamese troops. The CIA, whose active participation in fighting the Communist forces of the Pathet Lao is barely disguised, now goes under the name USAID Annex...
...hardhats digging up the earth next to Washington's National Gallery of Art last week were Chief Justice Warren Burger and Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who is giving the Government a new $45 million annex to the gallery. Burger's ceremonial spadework was the more convincing-perhaps because of his youthful days as a day laborer working on the Robert Street bridge, which spans the Mississippi. That job also helped develop his judicial prudence. The contractor, he recalls, told him to use three bags less cement in the concrete when the inspectors were not looking. "I used the full...
...lack of progress following President Anwar Sadat's major initiative of three months ago, in which he agreed to recognize Israeli sovereignty in return for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from occupied Egyptian territory. Cairenes last week also were angry that Israel has, in effect, decided to annex the strategic former Egyptian fortification of Sharm el Sheikh by building "an urban settlement" there (see box next page). For their part, Israelis are concerned by an important increase in Soviet arms shipments to the Middle East. They are especially worried that recent deliveries include the latest Soviet weaponry and aircraft...
...yesterday the rent control office at City Hall Annex was refusing access to landlord rent control forms on the basis that the forms have not been completely processed yet and therefore cannot be made public...