Word: expression
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Educational lobbyists express the most gratitude for the University's comprehensive and specific analyses of the effects on Harvard and Massachusetts students if the President's proposed budget cuts were adopted. One such study, for example, found that the College stood to lose more than half of its federal aid subsidy. Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis quoted another study when the he joined the lobbying effort...
...answer then fits into a larger set of unwritten assumption that seem to underlie a good deal of the speeches, lectures and writing at Harvard. You're free to express any ideas you want. But unless you say otherwise, it's taken for granted you're working with the same basic ideas as everyone else. And because the basic ideas usually go unwritten, they are often automatically accepted as true...
Does America need a new credit card? Sears thinks so. The nation's largest retailer will soon test-market its Discover credit card, which will compete against American Express and Visa. Sears will try out its orange-and-black piece of plastic this fall in Atlanta. The card will be accepted by Denny's restaurants, Hospital Corp. of America, American Airlines and Budget Rent a Car, as well as Sears stores. Holiday Inns is reportedly expected to sign...
Glass began to apply some principles of Indian music to his own compositions. His colleagues, however, were skeptical. Recalls Glass: "A friend of mine said that my work wasn't real music. Well, I looked around Paris and concluded that to express myself I'd have to go some place else." In 1967 he went back to New York...
...settlers' efforts were supported by leading figures in the Likud bloc, a partner with Peres' Labor Party in the national unity government. The Likud's leader, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said in a radio interview that he favored the release of the Israeli extremists "if only they publicly express their remorse at what they have done or intended to do." Even more adamant was another powerful Likud member, Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, the former Defense Minister who planned and carried out the invasion of Lebanon. Said Sharon: "It is unimaginable that after the release of the most terrible...