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Goldman added that the awards are unique because they "allow students to study what they want whatever they want." Fourteen similar grants given to social science students by the Center for International Affairs require the recipients to study outside the country, according to officials at the Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Rubles | 4/14/1983 | See Source »

...Fourteen of the injured were listed in serious condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Explosion | 3/9/1983 | See Source »

What I didn't know in my fifth grade naivete was just what went on in those finely upholstered meeting rooms that we were whisked through only when they were empty. I greatly anticipated the day when I would turn fourteen, which qualifies you to actually sit in on a debate, and play with the little dial on the chair that chooses a simultaneous translation of the proceedings in any of five official U. N. languages. Until I turned 14, I was pretty much a regular on the tour and in the gift shop...

Author: By Adam S. Coher, | Title: Display Of Bias | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...Fourteen hundred and five students--down from 1545 last year--applied to Harvard under the early action plan, which requires students to file applications for a single school by November...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fewer Apply Early to Harvard, Yale, Princeton | 11/16/1982 | See Source »

...following the Poznan "bread and freedom" riots. When Soviet troops massed in and around Poland that October, Gomulka is reported to have met Khrushchev's threat that he had mobilized his troops with the rejoinder, "So have I." The Soviets backed down, and Gomulka became a national hero. Fourteen years later, riots broke out protesting failing economic policies, and Gomulka was forced to resign after security forces, summoned to squelch the uprising, killed dozens of workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 13, 1982 | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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