Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magnificent electronic extensions of ourselves which can teach, and heal and inspire, if we use them not for the ruthless pursuit of the least common denominator but for their highest human potential. They give us the tools to lead the world out of ignorance and misery." You've got to be kidding...
...Picture driving 60,000 miles in Harvard Square traffic and you've got an old bus," she added...
...government, would have made it all worthwhile. The individual committees--on issues ranging from academics to student life to the role of the university in social and political affairs--could have pooled information, come up with a comparative report, offered some suggestions. But somewhere along the line, many committees got lost in the effort to come up with resolutions (calling for divestiture of investments in South Africa, among other things) and neglected to develop a reasoned critique of current university practices along with strategies for student action to change those practices...
...delegations were fed up by the conference organizers, who in a thousand small ways demonstrated their inability to run the conference efficiently. About 30 minutes before the conference was scheduled to break up, one of Harvard's organizers read a plan for an organization to ensure that conference decisions got translated into action, and that delegates continued to exchange information. The organization was also intended to run next year's conference...
...Student Assembly gave $200 to the Harvard delegation to defray some of its costs, and now the Assembly wants to know if it got its money's worth. Since the conference passed about 40 resolutions--all pre-packaged and ready for Assembly use--you might say the Assembly got a bargain at $5 apiece. And please, no Philadelphia jokes...