Word: center
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Harvard has not received any complaints about the buildings that house the University's three pools and has no plans to alter inspection programs, said Michael N. Lichten, director of physical operations. Harvard's pools are located in the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), Blodgett and Adams House...
This interaction between Harvard and government authorities should continue, but on a larger scale. In an interview yesterday, Kleiman suggested the creation of a drug center along the lines of Harvard's inter-disciplinary effort to combine research and public policy questions stemming from the spread of the AIDS virus...
From the personal attitudes and behavior of students, to the creation of a special center to study drugs, to increased efforts by the university police to arrest drug offenders, the University can and should make a greater effort to win the drug...
...domestic policies guaranteed her a larger audience than Norway's 4.2 million people. But what really hurled her center stage was her appointment as chairman of the U.N. commission on the environment in October 1984. Nine hundred days later, the commission released what has come to be known as the Brundtland Report, a document so blunt and sobering that it abruptly forced the issue of global responsibility onto the international agenda. Since then she has shuttled around the world, addressing conferences, accepting prizes, chastising polluters, cheering reformers and establishing her potential to become one day the first woman ever...
...criticism comes from both left and right. "To provide leadership, you can't just respond to circumstances, you have to create them," says Senator Alan Cranston, the liberal California Democrat and Foreign Relations Committee veteran. Frank Gaffney, director of the conservative Center for Security Policy, thinks that Baker "believes in success for its own sake and often finds specific goals inconvenient. That's not leadership or vision." Even Shevardnadze took a shot last week, complaining that "the restrained, indecisive position of the American Administration" has led to a "peculiar lull" in arms control...