Word: fends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier, some sponsors were accepted with the most cursory of investigations, often after nothing more than a telephone interview. The result: a number of "breakdowns," in which sponsors have not fulfilled their commitment to provide for the refugees until they can fend for themselves. There have been a few sordid instances of outright exploitation or abuse-in Florida, one woman was assaulted by her male sponsor. In most breakdowns, however, the sponsors simply lack resources to support the refugees...
Penn's offense was heavily laden with plays that employed a more frontal attack than Radcliffe was prepared for. The result was that goalie Stephanie Lear, who turned a fine performance, often had to fend off screened shots...
...task force's mission was an odd one--the professors, John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, among them, were told to fend for themselves. They cultivated their Far East contacts and encouraged Japanese businessmen and government officials to invest in Harvard. "We must rely on alumni and business contacts--we professors are not businessmen ourselves," Fair bank recalls today...
...layoffs. Explains Kiev: "The factory worker has more cynicism, more skepticism about the company than the executive. He feels that the company owes him something. When he is laid off, he rationalizes: 'Those sons of bitches at the company.' And he goes out to mow lawns and fend for himself...
...Technology." The eight hours clearly are not enough. Since the department's 1973 generals fiasco--when seven students failed both the written and oral parts of the examination--the senior faculty has almost certainly spent more time than that just reading undergraduate reform proposals and deciding how to fend them off as "unworkable" or "uneconomical...