Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...
PERHAPS the watershed event of the year--the event which showed students' ability to govern themselves--was that which unfolded at year's end, eventually before headlines nationwide. When the Undergraduate Council voted on April 24 to ask for the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps to Harvard (ROTC), it believed it was performing a service to the 90-odd undergraduate ROTC participants forced to commute to MIT for the program...
...end of a period tagged a decade of greed, which followed a "me generation" and a so-called age of permissiveness, the return of concern is encouraging. And, 25 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 20 years after such politics culminated in students taking over University Hall, the tumult was refreshing...
...manufacturer of office furniture based in Zeeland, Mich. The 66-year-old firm was rated among the ten most-admired U.S. corporations in FORTUNE's 1989 survey of executives and analysts. By another measure, $100 invested in Herman Miller stock in 1975 had grown to $5,156 by the end of last month...
...summer issue of the neoconservative quarterly National Interest carries an article titled "The End of History?" After 16 densely argued pages, the hedging question mark is all but forgotten, by reader and author alike. History, in the view of Francis Fukuyama, was a Manichaean struggle between ! the forces of light and darkness. The bad guys -- first fascists, now Communists -- have lost, the good guys have triumphed. But if the fight is over, so is the fun. The remainder of life on earth, frets Fukuyama, may be a bit of a bore. If there are no more world-class evils...