Word: conference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...program-now in its early stages-pays an individual consultant to confer with the student officers of organizations, evaluating and advising on general bookkeeping and the more complex procedure involved with filing non-profit tax returns...
...Haig, who contended in a midweek speech that any such no-first-use pledge would leave Western Europe open to invasion by superior Soviet conventional forces. The President did address the problem by proposing that both he and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev speak at a United Nations disarmament conference in New York in June and confer with each other in the process. That is an uncertain prospect in view of Brezhnev's health, and in any case the Administration has made little progress in working out an agreed-upon strategy for nuclear-arms reduction talks with the Soviets. Without...
Britain said Wednesday it will begin a blockade of the Falklands next week. Britain's Secretary John Nott declared English ships will sink any Argentine vessels within 200 miles of the archipelago. And Secretary of State Alexander Haig flew to London yesterday to confer with the British government and will go to Argentina this weekend...
...Montt needed more time to confer with church leaders. This time they gave their approval. As Ríos Montt sat with eyes closed and palms uplifted in prayer, the elders laid their hands on his head and shoulders and asked for God's blessing. An army helicopter arrived 30 minutes later to pick up the general, but he already had departed. Church members had driven him to the National Plaza in a car with darkly tinted windows, so that he would not be spotted. An elder was sitting by his side to witness the unfolding events...
Many on the faculty give that argument low marks. The new plan, argues Professor Charles Fried, "attempts to confer the benefits of membership in a meritocratic organization while being dishonest about the attainment of merit." Other critics fret that come hiring time, Review membership will be a devalued credential. Perhaps. But many firms have their own affirmative action goals, and few will pass up a minority student from the Review simply because he may have had a B + average rather than...