Word: establish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most college administrators don't mind. If the students quietly do what they want, it means less responsibility for the college. "I have four kids of my own. I can't take care of 500 more," Mary Williams, assistant dean of students at Lesley College, says. Some colleges establish a few simple guidelines--at Lesley these include only smoking in the designated areas in the wooden dorms, following state liquor laws, getting roommates' signatures for male or female overnight guests and limiting their stays to three consecutive nights or 12 nights a month. "It's unfair to roommates...
...recent announcement that Harvard, along with several colleges, universities and foundations, like Ford and Carnegie, is taking steps to establish a South African scholarship program has long been anticipated by antiapartheid activists. Although the details of the program have yet to be worked out, it should already be clear to informed observers that Harvard is not solely motivated by altruism or love of academic objectivity in this matter. Harvard's investments in banks and businesses which are involved in South Africa amount to almost $300 million...
...sure about one thing. "I plan to establish a career, I am not a traditional role person, and I will not be a housewife," she said...
...cotton plantations that occupy the bulk of the country's arable acreage for land reform. It ordered an investigation into the fate of 276 people who "disappeared" during Romero's reign. It pledged to form close ties with Nicaragua's new revolutionary government and to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba. The junta also begged El Salvador's leftist guerrillas to lay down their arms and join in building a "just society...
...writers lapse into a bland, shopping list prose style which may be suitable for album liner notes but waxes tedious after 30 lines. Even Nat Hentoff, a normally fine writer, gets bogged down by his habit of quoting extensively from the artists themselves. A few anecdotes are enough to establish the parallel between Lester Young's personal eccentricities and the relaxed intensity of his playing--the rest add only bulk...