Word: chile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty-four hours, door-to-door. That's been a frequent commute during the past five years for Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70 as he attempts to obtain a world-class research telescope in Chile for Harvard...
Kirshner, who is chair of the Astronomy Department, has been trying to raise money to purchase a 20 percent share in the twin 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes being built at The Carnegie Foundation's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile...
...system's funds in stocks, which have historically yielded a return of about 10%, compared with 6% from Treasury securities, the current repository of Social Security money. A second group of five panelists, including Sylvester Schieber, a Washington pension consultant, favors a system similar to Chile's. They would allow workers to create personal savings accounts funded with five percentage points of the 6.2% of paychecks currently paid in Social Security payroll taxes. The same split would apply to employer contributions, but the employer's 5% would finance a flat Social Security benefit of about $400 a month in current...
...record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough hypocrisy. DAVID KOS Salt Spring Island, British Columbia...
...sane and decent society, instead of being lionized in death by the media, Richard Nixon should have been tried while still living for the tremendous crimes against humanity in both Cambodia and Chile! --Gary Sudborough...