Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great deal of her," John Galbraith says. "We see much too little of them...
...December 5, 175 students from the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) take over University Hall for six hours, leaving only after they reach an agreement with administrators. The deal stipulates that at least one black subcontractor work on the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall, that further negotiations would continue between OBU and the University and that a civil rights worker and two black Harvard professors would serve on a committee to evaluate Harvard's hiring and wage decisions...
...will never know if another one just like it, for a better price, would have come up in the next week or month. But once we had made the decision, we could not go back and could not regret. It was done. And we were learning how to deal with brokers who break their promises and keep asking for more money. Stand strong, but play on their sympathy and fear. "We just won't be able to take it with a 15 percent commission, but we do really want this apartment," I told the broker and gave a heartfelt sigh...
...book Higher Learning, former Harvard President Derek C. Bok made a detailed assessment of the worth of a Harvard undergraduate education. According to a study conducted by Harold Bowen in 1977, Harvard teaches students a great deal of "substantive knowledge," and those students make "moderate gains" in verbal skills. Critical thinking tends to improve and students in quantitative concentrations show dramatic improvements in mathematical ability. More personally, seniors seem to know themselves much better than they did their first year, as measured by their own awareness of their "aspirations, abilities, and limitations...
...What it means: Monica could be getting serious about immunity. "These two are very distinguished and very good -- exactly the guys to cut the immunity deal that Ginsburg couldn't," says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister. "And that would be very bad news for the White House...