Word: duals
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Haggerty's dual appointment was unprecedented at Harvard but in keeping with the Ivy League's increasing efforts to close financial and philosophical gaps between men's and women's athletic programs. Recently, the Ivy athletic directors voted to discontinue the practice of determining women's championships in a one-shot tournament and instead the League's female athletes will play round-robin schedules just as their male counterparts have always done...
Summitry, an established and popular form of contemporary international diplomacy, requires enormous efforts of preparation and organization by literally thousands of people. So too with TIME staff members. This week's preview of the dual Western alliance summits at Versailles and in Bonn, and the visits by President Reagan with America's closest allies, required substantial preparation by TIME bureaus-including previews of the summit written by five European statesmen and collected by Senior European Correspondent William Rademaekers...
...European members of the alliance, a return to the dual NATO objectives of detente and security implies the strengthening of their own conventional defense. Over the years we have become too accustomed to the picture of overwhelming Soviet conventional forces that have to be met by the U.S. and its nuclear forces, thereby indirectly leaving the question of Western Europe's defense mostly to the Americans. The Western Europeans should be interested in reducing the role of nuclear weapons in defense of their own continent...
...British troops were maintaining radio silence, and the Defense Ministry was keeping a tight control on what it blandly called "offensive land operations." Nonetheless, the dual attack showed signs of being a classic pincer movement. The outnumbered 5,000-man British force was relying on surprise and mobility to take the battle to the enemy. Only a day after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons that "our troops are moving forward," the British had taken a long stride toward the goal of winning the fierce, stubborn and frustrating war for possession of the Falklands...
Jonathan L. Handel '82, vice president of the GSA and another one of the six ranking editors of Lavender Portfolio, echoed Tarver in stressing that the magazine has a dual purposes. "Artistically, the point is to present work with gay consciousness from gay people. Politically, I think the point is that it is another step in showing people...