Word: averting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Penn at 8 p.m. at Watson Rink. The Crimson defeated the Quakers, 11-3, in the season opener in December, but when the two teams met again in the consolation round of the Christmas Tournament out in St. Louis, Harvard needed four goals in the third period to avert major upset...
...solution, in the view of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, is to bring the U.N. into the picture. "This is the time, now, today, not tomorrow, for the Security Council to act," he said. But the fact is that, even though all the big powers are anxious to avert a conflict on the subcontinent, none are rushing to place the issue before the U.N. Security Council for fear that they might prove to be unable to agree. Lying in his hospital bed in New York City, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant confided to one of his aides last week...
...would ever be released. Charged with assault on a fellow inmate, he faced the added possibility of serving the next few years in isolation. Each day that he spent in prison was a protraction of his state of terminal vulnerability. "I go to bed each night, hoping, trying to avert the storm that is now coming on. I find each morning as I found this one, freighted with the possibilities of my own disaster." Chained to the flaps of an institutional Icarus, "I begin to weary...
...room for. Whether it was because of poor communication between the Houses and Epps's office, or because of unresponsiveness from Epps's office to the protests of House secretaries when unreasonable numbers of students were assigned to particular Houses, the fact remains that nothing substantial was done to avert an obvious crisis situation that was developing throughout the summer. No shuffling of upperclassmen, no reassignment of incoming sophomores was done during the summer months when it should have been done...
...this point, it is not clear just how much will have to be trimmed from the budget and where. We have to look at a long list of areas where careful spending will add up to considerable savings on a yearly basis. In this way we can hopefully avert a situation as drastic as that at Columbia. By instituting cost consciousness throughout the administrative organization of the University--at the Computing Center, the Press, in central services and so forth--we can partially offset increases in operating expenses and higher wages. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is another matter...