Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday's announcement amounts to more than a new twist in that relationship. The final, formal incorporation of women into Harvard College marks the end of a century-long dance between two institutions that have found it hard not to step on each other's toes...
...University, the dean of Radcliffe will not have the formal consulting power regarding the welfare of undergraduates that Wilson has technically enjoyed as president...
...Students from other schools need formal support to start these things up," he said...
Currently, the council budget is about $120,000 per year. With that money, we fund well over 100 student groups with average grants of approximately $300. In addition, we spend about $30,000 per year on Springfest, Yale-game events, holiday shuttles to the airport and the first-year Formal. Increasing the council's budget could provide $100,000 more for student groups while simultaneously adding about $20,000 to the other activities (the great majority of which would go to improving Springfest...
...glitches--caused by the inability of some computer hardware and software to read years after 1999--would keep lawyers busy well into the next century. What's surprising is just how fast the suits are coming: at least 78 so far, as many as 800 legal disputes proceeding to formal negotiations, and a few large settlements, including one for $7.5 million. If lawyers are this active now, how bad will it get when the year 2000 actually arrives? Lloyds of London insurance has predicted claims worldwide could exceed $1 trillion...