Word: documentation
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...THERE ARE sharp differences between the inner workings of Harvard during the summer and the other three seasons, differences which are scrutinizing this latest document without some familiarity with the University might have difficulty discerning. One notable deviation is the emergence from nine months of hibernation of the University's Ukrainian program. Buried by a whole host of committees and departments during the year, the Ukrainian Institute makes up one-third of the special summer-long academic programs, while the Soviet Republic permeates the regular summer course offerings. (One-fourth of the summer history menu deals with the Ukraine, including...
...revelation of Harvard Summer School 1963 is the striking similarity it uncovers between the oldest American college and the oldest American summer academic session: the bottom line. The same mentality which makes a Veritas diploma among the most expensive in the country can be seen throughout the 156-page document, where request for payment is a recurring theme. Twice, in fact students are offered the option of tuition via inter bank wiring (Account No. 22270045. Bank of New England. Boston Telex: MERNATINT 940191). The Best education in life is, after all, not free...
...came virtually on the eve of the 20th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's announcement that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were about to conclude a limited nu-clear-test-ban treaty. That document was signed after only ten days of talks...
Although genetic engineering is still in its early stage of development, the clergymen were worried about its implications for the future of mankind. Explained J. Robert Nelson, a professor of theology at Boston University and a signer of the document: "It may be possible to modify human life so much as to produce some theologically unacceptable notion of what human life is. We are in danger of treating human beings as animal stock rather than respecting their dignity...
Having achieved his prime goal of a statement on arms policy, Reagan was content to settle back and allow the vaguest possible economic declaration to emerge from the Williamsburg conference, mainly because any detailed document would probably have dwelt on the problems caused by high U.S. budget deficits and interest rates. Reagan was offered some protection from criticism by the implicit protocol of such conferences, in which members refrain from trying to dictate specific internal policies to other participants. Neither West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl nor Mitterrand pressed for any direct steps to tackle the problem of high interest rates...