Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Struggling for democratic decision-making within the University can affect important interest group issues like discrimination and minority hiring, but it can also have an impact on the concerns of even the most apolitical undergraduate--basic issues like the academic calendar, the number of shuttle buses and the mandatory full meal plan. Shouldn't the community itself--the students, faculty and staff who live and work at Harvard--make decisions about such things...
...periodically reminded of this basic difference by the exclusive...
...often regressed, since they received so few writing assignments and often lacked an incentive even to express themselves in complete sentences. Following this study, several professors of large science courses increased the number of their writing assignments. In yet another study, surveys of students a year after completing the basic course in economics disclosed that most of them had retained the concepts they had learned but had forgotten much of the terminology and had spent little time reading articles about economic questions in newspapers and magazines. These results led to course revisions which weeded out some terminological detail, emphasized...
...India, $2500 a year will cover basic expenses for the Ashoka Fellow, and $3500 will support the urban developer in Indonesia...
...International Monetary Fund, citing the government's inability to repay more than $200 million in overdue loans, took the unusual step of declaring Sudan ineligible for additional assistance. The economic pinch forced Suwar al Dahab's 15-member ruling Transitional Military Council to increase taxes, raise prices on some basic foods and gasoline by as much as 50%, and devalue the Sudanese pound, currently at four pounds to the dollar...