Word: furthers
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AS Derek Bok enters his 19th year as president of Harvard, he and his troops dig themselves ever further into their trenches of intolerance. The administrators' consistent refusal to open themselves to dissenting voices has led to a host of embarrassing and disturbing episodes over the past year.
The judge concluded that Harvard's transgression was not an attempt to suppress unfavorable evidence. And though he offered Jackson the opportunity to reopen the discovery process, she declined to press the matter further. With Harvard's error dismissed, Woodlock ultimately ruled that gender played no part in the University...
The hitch is a May decision by the state supreme court, which upheld the initiative but ruled that insurance companies are entitled to "a fair and reasonable" profit. Most of the state's insurance firms maintained that they should be exempted on those grounds. After reviewing their profit statements, Gillespie...
Then, two weeks ago, a drug hit team pumped five bullets into Luis Carlos Galan. A Senator and protege of incumbent President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Galan was the clear front runner to win the presidency in next May's elections. But by killing him the narcotrafficantes may have finally gone...
The essential German goal was to knock out the R.A.F., and though the Luftwaffe was taking heavy losses, so were the defenders and their bases. Then there occurred another one of those almost accidental twists. Two German bombers on their way to attack aircraft factories at Rochester strayed over central...