Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most basic terms, we need additional endowment funds to preserve the vitality of this institution," said MIT President Paul E. Gray at a press conference kicking off the drive. MIT's endowment, valued at more than $1 billion, lags far behind that of schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford...
Last year, for example, as you point out in contradiction to the basic tenor of your editorial, securing a $40,000 word processing center and opening Widener on Sundays were definite improvements in the quality of student life realized by the council...
More Pentagon money would influence the investigations of professors, warned Robert L. Park, executive director of the American Physical Society. Scientists who want Defense Department support must work on specific problems the Pentagon wants solved instead of basic scientific research of their own choosing, he said...
...vexation students experience when they seek advice here doesn't have to do with shortcomings of what's available. It has to do with the the frustrations of finding out what's available--and with screwing up the courage to walk into some professor's office and ask the basic questions academics entered university life, at least in part, to answer. It should be easier for students to find the sources of information that now lurk behind platoons of department secretaries, deputy assistant head tutors and signs listing each professor's four weekly office hours...
...busted. We're still here." Announcing that the union had filed an antitrust suit against the owners' "blatant display of monopoly powers," Upshaw said, "We've tried bargaining, we've been on strike. Now we'll let the courts decide." They intend to challenge the basic N.F.L. contract, the reserve system, even the college draft...