Word: bender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oxford Union is the biggest political program at Oxford," said John T. Bender '88, who chairs the student advisory committee for the IOP. "It's a model parliament very well known in England...
...Bender said he proposed founding a similar organization this fall during his successful campaign for chairman of the student advisory committee. The committee's 47 members gave the Harvard Political Union unanimous approval Sunday night...
...contrast is particularly striking for non-resident students who used to live on campus. John T. Bender '88, who moved off campus after living in the "dreary and dreadful" Quad, says, "It really helps at the end of the day to get away from the Harvard environment and be by yourself and relax fully. Living off campus you get back to your own little homestead, and it's good...
...audience is under 25. Only the future can tell which young writers will be ready to bleed for their art and which will continue to write with ice-cold Perrier in their veins. But current evidence indicates a considerable potential for a fiction of arrested development. Says Thomas Bender, head of the history department of New York University and author of the recent cultural history New York Intellect: "If the world is willing to pay you fortunes for anything you write, why try to polish your work?" Especially, it might be added, if there is an entire industry eager...
...foreign shopping bender signals a major transformation in America's global economic role. For nearly four decades following World War II, the U.S. did the buying, savoring its role as the globe's foremost exporter of capital. U.S. investment power was so great that in 1968 French Economics Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber predicted that American multinational companies like IBM and ITT threatened to turn Western Europe into an economic province. Concern about foreign cash flowing into the U.S. arose briefly in the 1970s, when a weak U.S. dollar and the emerging clout of OPEC prompted fear of an Arab...