Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These talks would seem to dash another fear of Harvard administrators--that local residents would be unreasonable if given a significant voice. The community leaders assembled for the talks recognized Harvard's need of at least breaking even on the venture, so they did not protest the office development included in the design. They did not try to block the project; they did not engage in rhetorical battles; they simply sat down with the University's representatives and worked out an amicable settlement...
These talks would seem to dash another fear of Harvard administrators-that local residents would be unreasonable if given a significant voice. The community leaders assembled for the talks recognized Harvard's need of at least breaking even on the venture, so they did not protest the office development included in the design. They did not try to block the project; they did not engage in rhetorical battles; they simply sat down with the University's representatives and worked out an amicable settlement...
These talks would seem to dash another fear of Harvard administrators--that local residents would be unreasonable if given a significant voice. The community leaders assembled for the talks recognized Harvard's need of at least breaking even on the venture, so they did not protest the office development included in the design. They did not try to block the project; they did not engage in rhetorical battles; they simply sat down with the University's representatives and worked out an amicable settlement...
Charles, who had previously projected a kind of steady, Urquhart-plaid personality, seemed to pick up some more dash, as if he were beginning to realize rather belatedly what his sporting friends would happily have told him: that he had made a damned lucky catch...
...ruling clergy is determined to dash all hopes of combining modernism with Islam in Iran, which had been the idealistic and forlorn plan of Banisadr. For the fundamentalists, the Paris-educated economist who became President represented a suspiciously Western, secular influence in the revolutionary government. It made no difference that his father, the late Ayatullah Seyed Nasrollah Banisadr, had been an Islamic leader revered by Khomeini. Supporting the suspicions about the deposed President, Khomeini declared last week, "Banisadr and his ilk are Muslims, but their Islam somehow leaves room for U.S. domination." He also charged that Banisadr had urged...