Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speed its transformation to a market-based economy, Czechoslovakia (pop. 15.6 million) plans to triple the capacity of its overworked telephone system. In June the government chose U S West and Philadelphia-based Bell Atlantic to build a cellular-phone network beginning this fall. The U.S. firms will share a 49% stake in the venture...
...actuality, Dr. Bell has made the prospect of hiring non-white faculty more remote. With the above reputation, the Law School administration will be hard pressed to comply with Dr. Bell's demands. His publicity tactics have backfired. Few qualified Blacks, female or male, in their right mind would accept a position at an institution with such a tarnished hiring reputation, Harvard...
Furthermore, as an Afro-American Studies minor, I am afraid that Dr. Bell's actions will do nothing to encourage Black students to apply to Harvard University. With a suffering Afro-American Studies Department, Professor Bell's actions only continue to dissuade prospective high school students from applying to or attending the College. There is no question that the publicity tactic Dr. Bell has chosen is persuasive indeed. Qualified Black college graduates will be "persuaded" to look elsewhere for a law school with a better reputation than the oversimplified one that Professor Bell has publicized by his action...
Unfortunately, any non-white faculty hiring the Administration chooses to do will not be as publicized as Dr. Bell's allegations or racist hiring. I doubt seriously the Chicago Tribune will choose to print a positive follow-up story if the Law School were to grant Professor Bell's wishes. If Derrick Bell and his supporters take a good look at all the fuss he has made, they will see that his actions were shortsighted and have no percussions. Kelly S. Mikelson...
...York Stock Exchange has not exactly stampeded toward a longer working day. In 1952 the Big Board extended the closing time 30 minutes, to 3:30 p.m., and in 1974 to 4 p.m. In 1985 the exchange moved the opening bell up 30 minutes, to 9:30 a.m. But exchanges in Europe and Japan trade N.Y.S.E. stocks when the Big Board is closed, typically handling an amount equivalent to 9% of the exchange's daily business. Now the Big Board is getting in gear. Last week chairman John Phelan unveiled a plan to move the N.Y.S.E. to 24-hour trading...