Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard seems to think something in the process of University decision-making is to blame for its problems with the city. "There are no individuals you can single out," says one city official. "The structure is such that it makes it hard (for Harvard) to move in any direction except its own selfish interest...
...cohesive in having a single ideology," Perkins says. "There is a great diversity in our basic attitudes toward what constitutes good economics. And I hope that diversity stays with the department at least as long as I'm here." As for the advantages to professors, Perkins says, "Except maybe in the amount it's publicized, I don't think it makes any difference whether an economist does the research sitting at his desk in Littauer or at the bureau."CrimsonChris DammTAKATOSHI ITO, NBER assistant...
Veteran distance men Eddie Sheehan, Peter Fitzsimmons and Mark Meyer capped their Harvard careers in a typically steady manner. The sprinters pulled off some stellar surprises in the face of debilitating injuries; but the jumpers, except for the superlative Stiles, had a disappointing season...
...COULD have been New York, except for the garden hose. They don't have gardens in New York, and carbon monoxide is everywhere. It could have been any big city, any middle city, this drying up of hope and wetting down of sorrow. It happens all the time, anonymously, in cities...
...face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...