Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These points deserve to be stressed because there is an impression that Harvard has somehow slighted African Studies. We did not find this to be the case, and in order to provide the necessary background, begin our assessment of the field with a brief historical review. As will be shown later, despite many years of activity, some problems remain. Therefore, certain recommendations will be made to improve the existing situation...
...only solid proposal of the day came from the U.S. In a brief statement, Lodge suggested the immediate re-establishment of the Demilitarized Zone as an inviolate buffer zone between the two Viet Nams. He also urged efforts toward troop withdrawal by both sides. Saigon's chief delegate, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, echoed the American proposals but could not resist a little propaganda on the side. "You'll never take the South by force," he warned the Communists. Shortly thereafter, the 6½-hour conference ended with an agreement to reconvene this week...
...seemed. But in the aftermath of the brief excitement, Columbia's acting president Andrew W. Cordier faced up to a nagging legal issue. He announced that a faculty committee will study the university's relationships with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Under specific scrutiny by the committee is Public Law 90-373. That recent, obscure piece of legislation withholds new NASA research grants from schools that bar military recruiters. More significantly, it also forbids universities to dispense NASA funds to any individual who has ever been convicted in any U.S. court of "organizing, promoting, encouraging, or participating...
Hopefully, millions of young women in this country have similar views of morality at age 16." Said the state in its brief: "Death above dishonor is ad mirable. But should that subject a property owner to liability simply because it occurs on his premises...
...high insurance coverage did not result from Israeli-Arab tensions, but from the brief Indo-Pakistani war in 1965. "At that time," says Sheikh Najib Alamuddin, MEA's president, "our aircraft served both Karachi and Bombay, and we decided to cover our fleet with complete war-risk insurance. Thank goodness we've continued to maintain those policies...