Word: conference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in history today Radcliffe and Harvard will hold a joint commencement ceremony. President Pusey will confer degrees on 4000 students, including 1300 undergraduates during the 319th Commencement...
Stoph's announcement reflected orders that he and Ulbricht received two weeks ago when they flew to Moscow to confer with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviets have just concluded five months of exploratory talks with the West Germans. The Russians, who hope to gain economic advantages from a deal with Bonn, do not want the East Germans to chill the diplomatic climate by breaking off contact at the very moment the Soviets are preparing to start negotiations with Brandt's government...
...Nader movement to Make GM Responsible. Combined with Harvard's ongoing implication in three of the four demands, the position that Harvard is not an appropriate target of the strike is bankrupt. The nation that Harvard can actually be an ally-after all, Pusey went down to Washington to confer with The Man just last week-is positively ludicrous...
These two are the basis of a diamond-hard reputation. Yet, the lady would rather be compared to an emerald. An emerald as big as a boardroom conference table adorns her right hand. On her left is a tear-shaped stone that could have originated only in the eye of a crocodile. She will be 80 on May 15, and the jewels she wears to parties in her honor are the recently won trophies of a long campaign. The stories, many of them set in her native Texas, brought honors, fellowships, sabbaticals in Hollywood and the rest of the grants...
...next few weeks, the two sides are expected to hold two 90-minute sessions a week, alternating between the U.S. and Soviet embassies. At the same time, technical experts from each delegation will probably confer more frequently. Though the Americans and Russians were welcomed with a round of receptions in the opening days, no further partying has been scheduled. Both sides have made it clear that they do not want to turn SALT into a "dancing congress"-as the Congress of Vienna was known-even in the waltz capital of the world...