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Word: extents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While still disagreeing over the extent of change, masters unanimously concluded that grade point averages, academic concentrations, numbers of honors students and extracurricular activities vary significantly by house and that the discrepancies should be corrected, masters and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said after a meeting yesterday...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Masters Agree Lottery Changes Needed | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...extent of it was being shoved around," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intruders Ransack WHRB | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...rent control is the best solution that Cambridge has found to the changing economic times. And to a large extent, rent control has proven effective. Cambridge has kept its diversity. Cambridge is not just another suburb of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Say No to 1-2-3 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Moreover, the reformers must work with ingredients that have grown stale. Every East European nation faces to some extent a similar litany of consumer complaints: food and fuel shortages, inadequate salaries that are declining in purchasing power, massive budget deficits. It presumes a lot to think that East Europeans will sit quietly through the price hikes, plant closings, job layoffs and other austerity measures ahead. "It's a race against time," says Dominique Moisi, deputy director of the French Institute for International Relations. "Can the democratization of politics beat the Third-Worldization of their economies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Bloc | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...some extent, the industry has made customers leery by engaging in esoteric debates over formats and components. Case in point: the controversy over an industry-wide computer "operating system." While the selection of this format is critically important to computer companies, customers tend to be confused by the endless discussions over the relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX. The same goes for the rivalry between the two fastest chips, the Intel 80486 and the Motorola 68040. "The industry is so busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Squeaking Along | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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