Word: continental
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Hollein can use the money. He is not widely known. Relatively few of his designs have been built, and most of those were reconstructions and renovations. Some Pritzker jurors were concerned about his comparatively skimpy oeuvre. In the end, however, he was allowed a European handicap: on the Continent, there...
Phinney, who is teaching "Introduction to Modern Critical Theory," was just hired this year as the English Department's sole theorist. The Literature Department, which offers Suleiman's "Modern Literary Theory," is itself the youngest of Harvard's concentrations. Things really are looking up, what with Harvard's nabbing Professor...
The summit also tackled more controversial matters. Mulroney pleased the President--and the Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic...
Alfonsin raised the economic issue in public two more times during his Washington stay, in an address before a joint session of Congress, after which & he was given a two-minute ovation, and at a meeting of the 32-member Organization of American States. At the OAS he used his...
"We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth . . . Support for freedom fighters is self-defense."