Word: control
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...spring, after 17 years of guiding Radcliffe through the most turbulent period in its history and defining what Radcliffe has become today. Horner assumed the presidency in 1972, in the wake of an agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe, which unified undergraduate housing and academics. In 1977, Radcliffe fully ceded control of undergraduate life to Harvard, but retained financial and administrative independence, institutional programs and oversight of the role of women at Harvard...
...mixed blessing for Boeing, the largest jet builder. The Seattle-based company, which sold 56% of the jets delivered worldwide last year, has a record $54 billion backlog of orders for 1,049 planes. But that enviable business has led to late deliveries and unaccustomed lapses in quality control. Over the past four years, the FAA has levied 14 fines totaling $245,000 against Boeing for putting faulty parts in exit doors and for other quality-control errors. The fines included a $145,000 penalty that Boeing paid last March for installing thousands of defective self-locking nuts...
...disputes was settled just days earlier, in District of Columbia Superior Court. Judge Frederick Weisberg ruled that the Catholic University of America had every right to follow John Paul's dictates by removing from its theology faculty Father Charles Curran, an outspoken professor who questions church policies on birth control, abortion, homosexuality, premarital sex and divorce...
Lyndon Johnson, as Senate majority leader and early on as President, could polish off a dozen or so Scotch-and-sodas in an afternoon and evening. He claimed they were half strength. He never lost control, just looked stunned. He quit cold turkey in the White House, switching to Fresca and root beer. For whatever reason, his presidency went downhill thereafter. White House abstinence was tried by Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge and Jimmy Carter. Results were dismal...
...Belgrade half a million resentful Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbian!" demanded a drastic expansion of their control over the province and stiff retaliatory measures against the ethnic Albanian majority. The spiraling unrest drove Raif Dizdarevic , leader of Yugoslavia's collective presidency, to dispatch paramilitary units and tanks into Kosovo while banning all public gatherings. The unrest also exacerbated the rift between Serbia and the republic of Slovenia...