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Word: ask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here's a company [Mobil] that's doingsome-thing really bad," says Ronald A. Goodman'60, an alumni member of the ACSR. Companies suchas Mobil force the University to ask, "'ShouldHarvard stay with a company to put pressure on itor should Harvard get out?'" according to Goodman...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: University Tackles Divestment's Nuances | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

STUDENTS from other universities of no small renown can simply volunteer to write for the paper, to take pictures for the yearbook, to give tours of the campus. But here, everything is a comp. What does "comp" mean, one may quite reasonably ask. "Competition?" No, heaven forbid, not "competition," the comp directors at The Crimson assured us. Not competition but merely "competence." You have to demonstrate that you're friendly enough to give a tour, for instance, or persistent enough to be a journalist...

Author: By David A. Shaywitz, | Title: A Process Beyond Comp-are | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...than five to seven days a month. Even so, Wright's defense may win the sympathy of many of the 300-odd members of Congress whose wives or husbands also hold paid jobs. They are not at all eager to set a precedent that might encourage future investigators to ask exactly what it is their spouses do and what interest in legislation the spouses' bosses may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombshell in The House | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...revolution is fixed in the collective psyche of the nation. Ask any Frenchman to free-associate: he automatically recites, "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite." Then comes a torrent of violent images. Heads on pikes. Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his bath. The zealous Saint-Just railing, "There is no liberty for the enemies of liberty!" And the battalions of Marseilles singing the nation's new anthem: "May the blood of the impure soak our fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Dennis A. Clarke '90 said Box for Africa--which uses proceeds from such competitions to help aspiring athletes in Africa and their nations' economies--approached the club earlier this year to ask it to organize a benefit...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Ban Stops Boxing Club From Africa Fundraiser | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

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