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Word: donee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year Harvard's Registrar Margaret Law decided to put registration on a Friday before the start of classes, rather than on the same Monday. This was done so students wouldn't miss any classes they wanted on Monday by waiting in registration lines. Oh, wait. On Monday we had to go wait in line to have our i.d. cards validated anyway. Of course, registering on Friday was still necessary because shopping period was shortened to seven days, a decision the faculty made so that professors could assign sections and start assignments sooner. Oh, wait. Seven days really means only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New and Improved | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

...could almost hear Bennett chuckling as he hiked off into the New England forests yesterday after a job, well, which was done...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Bye, Bye Wild Bill | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

...last eight years under Reagan have exacerbated the situation, but the Democrats--all of us, really--share the blame, along with economic, ecological, and historical forces nobody could have done much about...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Advice and Descent | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...years ago, the people who make decisions about Columbia football--the president of the university, the athletic director and other university officials--agreed that something had to be done to stop the slide. Too much losing is not good. Twenty-six years of losing (Columbia has not had a winning season since 1962) is outright disastrous...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Lion Continues to Sleep | 9/20/1988 | See Source »

...royalties from minerals, oil and gas that may lie beneath the tundra, as well as traditional fishing and hunting rights over an additional 600,000 sq. mi. of boggy terrain. Said Alexis Arrowmaker, an elder of the Dogrib tribe: "The young generation is going to appreciate what we've done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Deal of the Century | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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