Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open meeting last Monday, called to discuss the new CAP report, Steve Goldberg, a doctoral student at the Ed School, briefly raised the question of legitimacy of the reform process as perceived and understood by the students. He questioned whether there can be an "informed response" to the CAP report after such short notice on its release...
...meeting had been called by George W. Goethals, chairman of the department, to discuss the problems of overcrowding and lack of sufficient funds that have increasingly plagued the department...
Although the pact is generally regarded as one of the most cynical agreements in history, Stalin's decision met the approval of a majority of party members as "tactically wise," says Khrushchev. However, "we couldn't even discuss the treaty at party meetings. It was very hard for us-as Communists, as antifascists-to accept the idea of joining forces with Germany...
...really cheap." Still, the expansive price staggered most art experts. "I'm stunned-knocked out," declared Perry Rathbone. director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "No museum purchase funds can keep up with prices like that." Perhaps not. But Boston was sufficiently interested in the auction to discuss with Thomas Moving, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum, "half in jest, but half seriously," the idea that Boston and the Met pool their available funds to buy the Velásquez. The underbidder at Friday's auction, a firm of London dealers named Thomas Agnew...
...longer able to act, Harry and Jack observe and remember. They watch the people who walk by their table, discuss them, recall others like them. Although their recollections are often funny, Jack and Harry cannot laugh; they can only smile. And cry. Even their pasts seem alien, and time, all they have left, is an enemy. "You wonder how there was ever time for it all," Harry muses. "Time?" Jack replies. "Don't mention it." Each day is the same. They go to breakfast, and then to lunch, and then they take tea, and then they leave for dinner...