Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas R. Wolanin, staff director for the postsecondary education subcommittee, said representatives had seriously considered changing the balance of grants and loans, now about one-to-one, closer to its 1975 level of about eight...
...world thinks that Lebanon is finished, that the world is tired of us. But from my position I see the crisis coming forcefully to an end. All the factions are exhausted. No one believes any longer that military solutions are possible. In my opinion, a political solution is much closer than before. There is now a consensus that we have one identity, and it is Arab. This is the main reason I believe we are nearing a solution...
OUTSIDE OF New York power and politics, the Times continues to question authority (though not as thoroughly as it once did); it continues to show multiple sides of complex stories. But once the Times focuses closer to home, the objective eye is closed and the dissenting voice is hushed. The Times questions racism in South Africa but not in the South Bronx; it uncovers conflicts of interest in Washington, D.C. but not in City Hall...
Harvard will sell another rentcontrolled house as part of a plan to help faculty locate closer to the core campus one week before Cambridge residents voice their opinion on the controversial housing policy...
...course, Israel has had to face constant threats to its survival from the very beginning, a condition that has probably made its citizens care anyway. But their caring also comes from the sacrifices they make. People are giving so much to the government that they feel they are closer to it, and maybe, God forbid, that they even comprise...