Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard refuses to officially involve itself with the Cambridge Project, a Defense Department effort to develop a computer language, in protest of the Defense Department's policies in South-east Asia. However, 42 Harvard Faculty work independently for "Project Cam," receiving a total of $430,000 in Defense Department funds...
Popkin is jailed for his lack of cooperation,leading Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz tolead a petition effort on behalf of Popkins.Popkins is eventually freed on November 29 afterthe Boston jury is disbanded...
...made a huge effort to get her out," Galbraith says. Working as an advisor to the Senate at the time, Galbraith says he used his position to speak for her release and for the larger issue of human rights...
...realized I had lost my determination," he says. "After I worked so hard to become a high school All-American, I didn't work as hard to improve at Harvard. I vowed never again to let a lack of effort stop me from achieving something...
Although Harvard is beginning to make an effort to provide support networks and discussion for undergraduates through the Women's Initiative Project, funded by a $1.25 million gift by Jamie Houghton '58 and Maisie Houghton '62, undergraduate women have been short-changed for years by the tenuous division of duties between Harvard and Radcliffe. With Radcliffe as an excuse, Harvard has too often ignored its responsibilities to female undergraduates. It must now address specific shortcomings in its institutional attitude...