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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Summarizing what he said were broad ideas "floated" by the president at a meeting with the masters five weeks ago and in subsequent informal conversations, one master, who declined to be identified, said yesterday Bok has indicated that "if somebody doesn't do something about some of these groups, they get neglected...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Bok Urging Aid to Minorities | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...awarded the EEPC $1.2 million for a three-year study on health problems associated with a broad variety of solid air pollutants. This research may eventually help the federal agency predict the consequences of increased use of fossil fuels, Charles Eddington, a DOE spokesman, said...

Author: By Margaret M. Groarke, | Title: EPA Grant | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

...first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial presence. Drawing from an obviously broad reading, within and without the field of psychoanalysis, her allusions are perceptive and occasionally brilliant. She never degenerates into literary gushing...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Father of Us All | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

Mugabe promised a government dedicated to reconciliation between blacks and whites, but recently he has worried the whites by talking of transforming "our society in the interests and for the benefit of the broad masses of our people." The government's latest budget targets the new nation's upper class, which remains largely white: a 30% capital gains tax, an increase in estate levies and the elimination of tax deductions for business entertainment expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: No Instant Garden of Eden | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Walter Jackson Bate'39, University Professor, concurred, saying one of Levin's main contributions was to appoint professors with "breadth and range" and "a broad sweep in the humanities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Levin to Retire in Spring '83, To Leave Harvard in January | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

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