Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education department desk job. Citing accepted medical opinion that AIDS cannot be spread by casual contact, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco two weeks ago found that the school had violated federal laws preventing discrimination against the handicapped. Said Chalk of the emotional reunion: "It has given me a lot of optimism. I expect to stay the year and be back next fall. I'm not giving...
...have. Really you shouldn't"). Any household unwise enough to turn down such a gift risks full disclosure of embarrassing secrets. The cleaning woman wears hand-me-down clothes that always meet a standard of faded respectability: "For, watching each other, no one in Claremont Street would have given her a garment which was worse than something someone else had given her." Her presence seems ubiquitous: "There was hardly a dinner party in Claremont Street where Weekly was not in the kitchen crashing cutlery and dishes in the sink"; yet the people she works for know nothing at all about...
...deal is particularly embarassing for Bokbecause of his longterm emphasis on ethics andbecause of the special attention he has given tothe Kennedy School. Last week, Bok asked the deansof Harvard's nine faculties to review theirpolicies on fundraising in hopes of preventingdeals similar to the K-School's. But he hasacknowleged that decentralization may make thatdifficult
...there's one thing you can say about Clemson, it's that the Tigers have school spirit. The Harvard soccer players were given Tiger memorabilia when they checked in, complete with a flourescent orange pom-poms and their own sew-on paw patches...
...think the fact that [the university] hasn't given us any economic counterproposal in 15 negotiating sessions is very much indicative of the way the university sees the negotiations," Berman said. She said she thinks the university is bargaining in bad faith...