Word: eight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commonwealth Day, whose enrollment in its new Boston location has dwindled to eight students, the political chain of events touched off by their departure is irrelevant: The school has left the city, and Myette says he is unsure whether it will even consider trying to return...
...second measure of success lies in the marchers' legacy, which will depend entirely on decisions awaiting the Bush Administration. What the demonstrators want is high-priority consideration of the housing issue. What they want are answers. Will Bush and the Congress produce a housing policy to compensate for eight years of abuse and neglect at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)? Will they reinvigorate that atrophied agency, currently limping along on a $7 billion budget, slashed from $32 billion since Reagan took office...
Perhaps the most pressing legal issue is whether or not the Fly Club and the other eight clubs are public or private organizations. It is the lengthiest part of Baker's brief and the one which quotes the most extensively from precedent-setting cases...
Lest we forget, Bush and the Republican Party still refuse to accept their complicity in the creation our nation's current educational crisis. Eight years of conservative attacks on education spending have weakened America's social structure to the point where many school systems teeter on the brink of collapse...
Harvard seems to stand alone in its belief in forcing students to make a choice about which many are not informed. Concentration fairs give a blurred picture at best, while the real taste of a concentration comes from taking courses in the particular department. Of the eight courses taken first year, three are usually consumed by Expos and language requirement. In addition, core courses tend to be the secondary priority of new students, though the core fails to give a real picture of any particular department...