Word: combatting
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Tremont House, formerly the Quality Inn, Boston, Mass.: Harvard provided a $13 million mortgage for this property on the edge of the combat zone. As part of the deal, Harvard gets 50 percent of the hotel's receipts...
...credit, Bush has already taken several steps that will help combat global warming. Among other things, the White House has 1) earmarked $1 billion for global climate research next year; 2) committed the U.S. to phasing out production of chlorofluorocarbons, potent greenhouse gases, by the year 2000; and 3) vowed to plant a billion trees, which would absorb CO2 from the air. But Administration officials admit that Bush advanced most of the measures for reasons other than reducing global warming. And environmentalists argue that the Government should do much more to discourage the burning of fossil fuels. Among the possibilities...
Most days Hartman is in the thick of it. Invariably dressed in a windbreaker and running shoes, he prowls the classrooms eager for combat. Heated debate is the norm at Hartman's place. Eavesdrop long enough and you will likely hear an eclectic collection of world-class brains clinch philosophical arguments by telling one another they're "full...
...remedy for a lack of tutors, the restrictions have the distinct flavor of blaming the victim. The more educational and fair solution would not be to hold students responsible for the shortage, but to combat the shortage itself. The Department took the first step by requiring its 35 faculty thesis advisors to take on at least three theses each. This group alone accounts for 105 theses, only seven short of this year's figure. With an additional 35 eligible advisors, the Department could accommodate the anticipated growth over the next few years. Department administrators should spend their time thinking...
...have no idea. But from the beginning this case has involved what people now call combat public relations by Milken's defenders and enemies at levels that I think are unseemly. And I'm disturbed that while the gods are up there fighting, Drexel has gotten swept into it in ways that are reasonably horrifying...