Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gate house next to Johnston Gate in the Yard cost Harvard $25,000 to construct and was chosen from more than 330 design plans. But rather than opting for the amusement-park look, University officials at the time chose colonial-style architecture, hoping that the small structure would blend as unobtrusively as possible into its Yard surroundings...
...based missiles each side is permitted. To stay within the limit, it must either retire and disable an older 16-missile Poseidon sub or destroy at least 14 Minuteman land missiles. Hard-liners argued against taking either course; they wanted the U.S. to exceed the limit deliberately. Reagan chose a halfway measure: mothballing or converting a Poseidon rather than cutting it up as the treaty requires...
...most people, an annual income of $35 million would be reason to celebrate. But heirs of Billionaire Oilman J. Paul Getty, who died in 1976, chose to litigate instead. In a bizarre and bitter feud, family members sued to break up the $4 billion trust that has been the source of their fortune and to remove Gordon Getty, 51, a son of J. Paul's, as sole trustee...
...from Revolutionary times, Commencement has also been a forum for serious debate, epitomized first by the "Thesis and Question" and more recently by the featured speech. As Samuel Eliot Morison shows in his Three Centuries of Harvard, speakers invariably chose to exploit their moment in Harvard's unique spotlight by addressing one of the burning issues...
Despite being recruited by national hoop powers after his outstanding prep career, Carrabino--encouraged by Joe, Sr., a UCLA professor--chose Harvard for its academics...