Word: dam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend. Since the 60s, the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's main channel for foreign assistance, has grown dissatisfied with captial development projects--such as road, dam and hospital building. Instead, it has increasingly favored training programs in areas such as business management as well as grants that bring foreign students to the U.S. to study, says Walter A. Grady, an AID spokesman. "We've shied away from capital development because we've learned the lesson that they don't really benefit the poor...
...conducted in Mexico in the fall of 1980 which was a condensed version of the K-School's "Workshop" course on the fundamentals of management--memo writing and cost-benefit analysis. A Kennedy school professor was working from a case study on the cost and benefits of building a dam, and explaining how to weight the cost of finding alternative accommdations for Indians in the proposed site against the benefits of the improved power the dam would provide. A Marxist member of the Mexican faculty broke in and criticized the technique as being too capitalistic and rebuked the K-School...
...install a network of "work stations", outlets which will allow students and Brown employees to "plug into" the school's computer system. Dorm rooms, faculty offices and" every place where there is a desk" will be included in the system by the end of the decade, predicts Andries van Dam, chairman of the computer science department...
...Saul Mkhize, 48, a quiet, slender accountant. He owned the land that his grandfather had settled in 1912, when 300 black families pooled their resources to purchase a 6,000-acre tract. But in 1981 the government announced that it needed all the land in Driefontein to build a dam. To show that they were serious, officials arrived to paint numbers on the heart-shaped gravestones in the Driefontein cemetery in preparation for moving the remains. Mkhize and his neighbors protested vigorously, insisting that they owned the land and would not leave...
...vigor at the White House when he returned. The Administration then decided to wait until after the West German elections of March 6. Once those elections had confirmed in power the pro-American government of Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, an interagency group under Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam started intensive planning of a revised American position...