Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mill Harvard liberal cause--say, the drive to force the final clubs to admit women. But the administration's attempts to tamper with the sacred housing lottery are far more insidious than all their past transgressions combined. The new plan is nothing less than an attempt to control the housing choices (and thus the lives!) of Harvard students...
...this spring's housing lottery. This wouldn't accomplish a damn thing, except leave a lot of freshmen looking for affiliated housing in the fall. You should not run from the housing lottery--if you consider yourself a true activist imbued with a revolutionary "student consciousness," you should seize control...
Gorbachev's arms control initiatives have also made the U.S. efforts to modernize missile forces in Europe more difficult...
...Hollywood, they say, any bureaucrat can give the thumbs-down to a film proposal, but the ones with real clout are those who can flash a thumbs-up and make it happen. That power used to be the exclusive preserve of the studio moguls. Not anymore. While studios still control the financing, today the man with the golden thumb is Michael Ovitz, an agent and martial-arts buff who works in quiet but irresistible ways. Nearly everyone in show business agrees that Ovitz, 42, president of Creative Artists Agency, is probably the most powerful figure in Hollywood. Some think...
...Education Minister in Botha's Cabinet, De Klerk has been heir apparent for the past seven years. He is a conservative and an apartheid advocate, a younger, more articulate version of P.W. Botha and, like him, happy with a glacial pace of "reform" that nonetheless maintains minority white control...