Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, now 3-4 in the Ivy League (8-10 overall), fell behind by 11 points at the half and never got closer than 10 the rest...
...recruitment, Spence said he has increased departmental allowances by a few hundred dollars. This will enable each department to bring candidates for junior positions to Harvard, a move which he said gives senior faculty members a closer look at the candidates...
...cities with high vacancy rates, low-income tenants like the freedom that vouchers provide, even at a higher price. Says Apolonio Flores of the San Antonio Housing Authority: "Some of our people are saying that they always wanted their kids to go to a nicer school, to live closer to their parents." But the rental markets in some cities are so tight that vouchers are meaningless. New York City, for example, has 200,000 applicants waiting for public housing. When vouchers were offered to low-income families there, 62% were returned unused: even with federal assistance, the families still could...
...government was able to come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...
...floor and ceiling slope closer and closer, and soon it is necessary to drop down to hands and knees. Each arch peaks about two feet away from the ceiling and then goes back down. Beyond the three arches, a set of steel double doors leads into the Business School, where the tunnels dramatically change character...