Word: granted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed unshakable just weeks ago has loosened to the point of presenting both countries with the prospect of events slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after another, hoping each move will quiet the mounting outcry and preserve some measure of power for themselves. The opposition's success begets bolder demands -- and party leaders capitulate, further diminishing the very authority they hope to maintain...
...from a 1988 memo to Kennedy School Dean GRAHAM T. ALLISON '62, discussing a proposed deal to offer Charles and Joanne Dickinson Officer of the University status in exchange for a $250,000 grant...
BOSTON--In what was believed to be the first case of its kind, a U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling that Boston University must pay $215,000 in damages and grant tenure to a female professor who sued the university for sex discrimination...
Baldwin and other supporters say that the university, which was founded under the Land Grant Act of 1862, may face a legal battle if it bans ROTC. The Land Grant Act provided start-up money for state schools but stipulated that the schools offer military instruction...
...movie brings homelessness home by presenting it not as a cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic...