Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I went to college my resolution to become a diligent scholar was undermined by the discovery that four racetracks lay within easy commuting distance of Harvard Square. I managed to dabble at both academic and equine pursuits for the better part of four years, until an irreconcilable conflict arose two weeks before graduations...
Surely it is. Washington backs the Lon Nol regime but played no known role in helping the Marshal seize power. The conflict there is primarily a civil war; even though Hanoi is aiding the rebels, there are serious doubts that the North Vietnamese would dominate a Khmer Rouge government...
...horizon; others swarm and cluster like a plague of monstrous locusts. Spread over 2,500 acres is an air armada that seems big enough to start World War III or, judging by the vintage of some of the craft, to replay World War II or any lesser conflict of the intervening years. Phalanxes of helicopters, their windows painted over, large numbers on their blunt noses, bear an eerie resemblance to massed football linemen. The air base is not some secret, Seven Days in May outpost, but the Pentagon's Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), a giant parking...
...Commission on Extension Studies, with the support of Greater Boston's finest institutions: the bright high-school student who wants to pursue a subject unavailable in secondary school, or advance further in a language, or acquire credit before college; the full-time college student by-passing a time conflict by taking the desired course in Extension instead; the employee in business or industry whose firm provides tuition refunds and other incentives for following a pertinent course of study, promising advancements and salary increase on completion; the family person charged with raising future citizens and leaders intelligently, who blends daily social...
This positive dimension finds expression in the activities of several groups in the Harvard community. Among these are an undergraduate committee sponsoring speeches and discussions on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Houses, the current campaign to raise money for the Israel Emergency Fund and the ad hoc committee on UNESCO and Israel. Active participation in constructive efforts such as these shows that the circle of ambivalence can be broken...