Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newly elected Board President John C. White-head said divestment was a closed matter as far as the Overseers were concerned. He said it wouldn't be on the agenda this year.
The administration at all levels has been closed to the myriad concerns expressed by alumni, faculty, students and staff members. From the continuing debacle of the Overseers elections to the insensitivity of the College and faculty in the face of worries about minority hiring and security problems, Harvard administrators have...
Refugees also continue to pour out of Bulgaria; more than 312,000 ethnic Turks have fled over the past three months. With hundreds of thousands more refugees expected, the Turkish government reached the limits of its patience last week and closed the frontier to refugees not carrying visas. At 3...
We left Paris the next day for Bordeaux, where we arranged for Portuguese visas for as many Austrians as we could. By that time I was on a list of 49 persons the Nazis had asked the French to hand over. When we arrived at the Spanish frontier, it was...
Although virtually everyone in Poland recognizes the need for economic reforms, the country lacks the money, and has failed so far to demonstrate the political will, to make them. Old factories and unproductive coal mines must be closed, meaning the loss of thousands of jobs. The Communist-dominated bureaucracy and...