Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stiles' first-place performance in the pole vault, along with the two-mile relay team's third-place effort, boosted Harvard to an awesome seventh place overall finish at the NCAA indoor track championships at Detroit this weekend...
Akins advocated a mixture of toughness and sympathy toward the Saudis. "The most important effort is to bring the corruption there under control, because it is great. Extraordinary agents' fees [fees demanded by well-connected Saudis on purchases from the U.S., often suspected of being ill-concealed bribes] have to be cut out. You can point out to them that this is a main topic of conversation in the country, as indeed it is." Since corruption causes social unrest, Akins considers this so important that he believed the warning should be delivered by President Carter "or an emissary...
...aimed an unmistakable rebuke at what Peking considers the jelly-bellied Western response to adventurism by the Soviets and their clients. Teng also gave the fullest explanation yet of the motives behind China's two-week-old "punitive" invasion of its southern neighbor, Viet Nam. In an effort to placate international alarm, he repeated assurances that the operation "will be limited in degree and will not last a long time," perhaps no longer than China's four-week invasion of India in 1962. There were reports at week's end, in fact, that the Chinese were considering...
Freshman diving sensation Pam Stone captured the one-meter diving title in the first day of the Small College Nationals Thursday and led the Harvard women's swim team to a 29-point effort at the multi-team affair in Reno...
...these reforms--to force Faculty commitment to the tutorial system--is in keeping with the original, commendable spirit of the tutorial concept. But this legislation, which lacks formal methods of enforcement, must falter before a predominantly resistant teaching staff. The history of failed tutorial legislation sadly presages this effort's fate. The 1958 tutorial regulations, which allegedly still guide each department, require that Faculty members teach a minimum of 30% of a department's tutorials and that graduate students teach no more than 30%. However, a 1977 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest departments--Economics...