Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Business School has given the program $2000. Nhan Truong has also applied for funding from other sources such as the Associated Grant Makers, a consulting organization that helps channel donations from the business community to Boston community service programs...
Bromfield said that although the issue of computer privacy receives publicity, the same priority is not given to invasions of telephone security. He added that although public knowledge about computer privacy invasion is focused on teenagers, it is equally important to be aware of adult hackers...
...occupied territories. Besides confronting tear gas, rocks, bullets and Israeli press restrictions, reporters face the daunting logistical problem of following what McGeary describes as a "war without a front," in which violence may erupt without warning in any one of 27 camps. "Being at the right spot on any given day is as much luck as good intuition," she says...
Upon the Generalissimo's death in 1975, Chiang, already Premier, succeeded him as Chairman of the Kuomintang. Given the title of President in 1978, he wisely encouraged active Taiwanese participation in the island's surging economy, thereby promoting political stability. He also gained considerable personal popularity, mixing regularly with farmers, laborers and fishermen. Some setbacks occurred, however, most notably the U.S. decision in 1979 to recognize the Beijing regime...
...School near St. Louis. In May 1983, Principal Robert Reynolds summarily ordered two articles deleted from the paper. One featured the experiences of three Hazelwood students who had become pregnant; the second dealt with the impact of parental divorce on students. Though the girls in the first piece were given pseudonyms, Reynolds believed that they were identifiable, that the article was too frank for younger students and that its overall picture of teenage pregnancy was too positive (sample quote: "This experience has made me a more responsible person. I feel that now I am a woman"). In the second article...