Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demanded that we consider what we were doing asked whether we wanted to destroy Harvard University. No reason occurred to me why Harvard should not be destroyed. Harvard's only use was as a forum for our protest I, at least, did not need to ask whether Harvard should expand, because I had found nothing at Harvard worth saving. The War, racial discrimination, police brutality and the violation of University autonomy may explain the actions of many of those who struck after the Bust, but for me, at least, something very different was involved, something that seems when I call...
Administrators said that specialized advanced degree and post-professional programs are needed to expand the curriculum and being in new sources of funding for the school...
...prominence of such issues as sexual harassment and race relations this year has caused Harvard's several undergraduate peer counseling groups to expand their focuses in response to student needs...
...Culture Ministry, which has more than doubled its budget (to $1 billion) since 1981, has been busy promoting Lang's schemes to expand the horizons of citizens. A new museum and concert hall are being built on the site of an old slaughterhouse in eastern Paris. A large new "people's opera" is on the drawing boards. Subsidies have kept books relatively cheap and at the same time prevented venerable bookshops from being killed off by discount chain stores. But Lang's free spending, including an almost completed maison des écrivains (House of Writers) with word...
...MOMA had to expand. It also had to find a different financial base. Both these matters, when embodied in a plan that was made public in 1976, caused some livery controversy. To get more money, the museum came up with the idea of a 44-story tower of luxury apartments, an unprecedented step for a tax-exempt institution that, in the view of Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable, proved "the most artful real estate deal ever devised." Reckoning in the six floors that constitute the base of the tower but belong to the museum, the exhibition space has now more...