Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal answer, at least in the minds of some faculty members, is to appropriate a University owned lot across from Lamont, the former site of the Gulf station. Last spring, Harvard Real Estate acquired the lot and announced plans to build a hotel on it. But last December the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed a resolution calling on the University to use the space for some academic purpose--including a library...
...RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre (Knopf; $19.95). A document discounting Soviet missile capabilities is smuggled to the West. Never mind glasnost, perestroika and the cold war thaw. Are these grubby notebooks full of facts and figures true? The quest for the answer produces the author's most hair- raising thriller since The Spy Who Came In from the Cold...
Many in the audience remained unimpressed. One stockholder, Ed Rothschild, president of the Citizen-Labor Energy Coalition, called on Rawl to resign. "The answer is no," came the chairman's quick reply. He also rebuffed several shareholders who suggested that he donate some of his own money -- his salary in 1988 was $1.4 million -- to the cleanup effort...
...Salembier, was brought in last fall; she cut a swath through the advertising department, firing the ad director and eliminating dozens of jobs -- then quit after just five months. On the editorial side, the managing editor and Hollywood bureau chief have resigned, and top editor David Sendler must now answer to a new corporate overlord: Roger Wood, former editor of the sensationalistic New York Post, which Murdoch owned until last year. "There's no interest anymore in analysis of the industry or in taking a serious look at the content of TV news," says an unhappy staffer. "The watchdog role...
...cheapest answer to protecting the sites is to rebury the remains and proceed with construction; future generations could re-excavate the ruins when the new buildings are knocked down. That is exactly what developers have decided to do at Huggin Hill. Stacks of tiles from the 2,000-year-old central- heating system will be covered with foam and wood before the whole site is filled in with sand; a planned two-story basement will be built at another location so that only a small section of a Roman retaining wall will need to be destroyed. Developers of the Rose...