Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most undergraduate women today scarcely acknowledge Radcliffe's role in their lives, choosing to identify themselves as Harvard students. And some women complain that Radcliffe sits silently by while they fight for a women's studies concentration, the eradication of the all-male final clubs, more women faculty, better campus security and greater equality in those Harvard departments known for their sexist classroom climate...
...preference would be that, if funds could be found for [building a new library], the Gulf site is not the best site. I would much prefer something in the vicinity of Pusey, 17 Quincy St., Lamont--in there if one could squeeze something in. It would be much much better to have the library a continuation of Widener, in the sense that Pusey is a continuation of Widener...
...three previous speeches he had voiced stern warnings against being taken in by Soviet peace talk, Bush now praised Gorbachev for "being forthcoming" in negotiations on conventional forces in Europe. He emphasized that "our policy is to seize every -- and I mean every -- opportunity to build a better, more stable relationship with the Soviet Union...
...problem of defense is how far can you go without destroying from within what you're trying to protect from without. Already we've gone too far when, on any given night, 100,000 American children go to sleep homeless. And we house our missiles so much better than we do our homeless...
Frankly, I don't understand Bush. If he thinks we are going to get a neo- Stalinist successor to Gorbachev, how much better it would be for that successor to have far fewer weapons. I do not think he is waiting around for Gorbachev to be overthrown by students the way students are doing it in China. So I don't see what's holding Bush back, except that over the past 40 years the U.S. has, narrowly speaking, profited from a divided and armed Europe. It has given us a lot of political and military leverage. It is clear...