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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those whom we confronted, and who missed out on their dinner that night, were also Harvard and Radcliffe graduates. What divided us was not our relationship to our alma mater, but, our willingness or unwillingness to cooperate in the politically conservative tone and orientation that the current Harvard administration chose to give to its birthday party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350th | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

...last effort to portray Kennedy as unworthyof his name, he repeated Roosevelt's early mistakeof levelling an ill-founded and belligerentaccusation, hoping the candidate would reactunsuitably. He chose a television debate toconfront Kennedy with the fact that a subsidiaryof his Citizens Energy Corporation had limitedfinancial relations with three Libyan banks...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: How Joe Kennedy Got the Dems' Nod | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

...school's quest for an independent identity got a boost when, coincidentally, President John F. Kennedy '40 chose to locate his presidential library in Cambridge...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Kennedy school graduates choose to enter a variety of fields after receiving their degrees. In 1985, 40 percent chose government positions at the federal, state, or local levels; 11 percent chose non-profit agencies; 12 percent pursued further education; and 31 percent entered the private sector. The graduates showed an average starting salary of $28,000 compared to $45,000 for Harvard MBA's, according to the Washington Post...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Celebrating the Crimson Handshake | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...fight for secession from Khartoum. In the 17 years that the Anya Nya I (Snake Venom) movement was active, more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya Nya II, and in 1983 it splintered further into the SPLA. As their leader, the SPLA members chose Garang, a former lieutenant colonel in the Sudanese army whose academic skills had taken him from a peasant hut in the Dinka tribal village of Wangkulei to a doctorate in agricultural economics at Iowa State University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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