Word: concessioner
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In Viet Nam, the Soviet Union is still praised officially as the country's economic savior. Vietnamese factories with Soviet experts are termed "seething with friendship" by the Viet Nam News Agency. Under the current five-year plan (1981-1986), the Soviets have pledged to help Viet Nam with...
In the negotiations with tenants, Harvard has agreed to provide some room--25 per cent--in a refurbished Craigie Arms for low and moderate-income earners who qualify for state and federal subsidies. But considering Harvard's clout with the state housing agency--a member of the Corporation served as...
With just eight seconds lift, sophomore Bob Ferry sank both ends of a one-and-one to give Harvard a three-point lead and a stranglehold on the game. Green's last-second dunk brought UMass to within one, but the concession basket came too late, and the Crimson celebrated...
As such, the Corporation decision represents a slap in the face to the students who battled so long to get even this small concession. The men who run the University reason, and probably correctly, that not many students here currently will care, certainly not care enough to do anything.
The uproar provided China an excuse to withhold, at least for the moment, a key concession Holdridge had been sent to obtain: Peking's denunciation of the Soviet role in the military crackdown in Poland. Nonetheless, U.S. diplomats were heartened that the Chinese did not carry out their earlier...