Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...positive step, and one which other colleges have taken, would be to guarantee in-house loans or grants to the nonregistered students whom the law would affect. It is up to the University, now discussing its response to the law, to fill the financial void. By supplying such funds. Harvard need not make a political statement against registration; it would merely reaffirm its current policy of supplying all aid a student needs, regardless of how much of that money comes from outside sources...
Indeed, a man from Osawatomie, Kan., hoping that Harvard would fill one such expectation, asked. "Please write me a letter back and let me know something." To prove that he was somewhat qualified, he sent along a three-page algebraic proof and a greeting: "Best of luck in football...
...African official ever accused of working for the KGB. Four other Soviet spies have been prosecuted there since 1967. Though he is described by authorities as a highly skilled operative, Gerhardt was tripped up on a bureaucratic technicality. When South African military personnel travel abroad they are required to fill out a routine form for their superiors. After officials at Simonstown noticed that Gerhardt had neglected to turn in the documents, they placed him under surveillance. Finally police moved in last week to detain the Gerhardts and conduct a meticulous search among the silver and the Persian carpets. If found...
Click, click, click. Let your magic channel selector take you on a ramble through the satellite night. Three basketball games fill the sports stations: one pro, one college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young...
...what you'd intuitively guess, anyway. Six p.m. is no time to be playing hockey--fans catch dinner first and the Garden doesn't fill up until well into the third period. But with the late game, there's a sense of great anticipation--with over 10,000 on hand just to watch the warmups, more than at most pro games, the adrenaline really starts to flow...