Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city had finally given up all efforts to govern itself and surrendered its key powers to the state. But Mayor Beame didn't see it that way. Said he: "We're not giving up home rule. There is absolutely nothing in the plan that doesn't exist today." After leaving the mystified reporters, the mayor returned to a basement conference room in his executive mansion to brief city officials on the new system. And what had he asked the city officials to do? a reporter inquired. One of the officials gave a brief answer: "Pray...
...unlike high school, being elected to a student committee at Harvard does not mean you are the most popular or best-looking kid in the class. Most students couldn't care less who is on the various committees at Harvard, and those who do care generally forget the committees exist once the elections are over. Between academic work and going to movies, few students really have either the time or the inclination to concern themselves with deciding how many freshmen should live at Radcliffe or whether the first semester should end before Christmas. And with the increasing cut-throat competition...
...they choose and to argue for positions and vote however they please. Like most monopolies, the present system of closed student-faculty committees is inequitable, self-serving, and inefficient. Open meetings would at least give other students the opportunity to see for themselves why student government does not exist at Harvard...
...office that counsels students on careers, thinks so many people are going to college these days that pretty soon college graduates--even Harvard graduates--will be forced into blue-collar jobs. Fisher's office publishes a book called After Harvard What? that predicts "that new and tougher competition will exist from the brightest Ph.D. on down, that many, no matter how well-educated, will end up doing work of a somewhat different kind than the work which someone similarly educated would have undertaken even a few years...
...suggested that it should be possible to tell when and where quakes were likely to occur by keeping close tab on the buildup of stresses along a fault. But the knowledge, instruments and funds necessary to monitor many miles of fault line and interpret any findings simply did not exist. Earthquake prediction did not draw much attention until 1949, when a devastating quake struck the Garm region of Siberia, causing an avalanche that buried the village of Khait and killed 12,000 people. Stunned by the disaster, the Soviets organized a scientific expedition and sent it into the quake-prone...