Word: hastened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each year, as members of the Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees willing to talk hasten to point out, the University solicits nominations for degrees from all members of the Harvard community. Yet Dershowitz and others maintain the resulting list is largely irrelevant when the committee sits down to pick about 10 recipients from all walks of life. Those critics cite past unpopular recipients as evidence of the arbitrary nature of the system--a favorite example is the Shah of Iran, who got a degree in 1968. The critics also charge that deserving minorities and Jews--like Supreme Court Justice Louis...
...could say that the parrot, representing clever vocalisation without much brain power, was Pure Word. If you were a French academic, you might say he was symbole de Logos. Being English, I hasten back to the corporeal: to that svelte, perky creature I had seen at the Hotel-Dieu. I imagined Loulou sitting on the other side of Flaubert's desk and staring back at him like some taunting reflection from a funfair mirror. No wonder three weeks of its parodic presence caused irritation. Is the writer much more than a sophisticated parrot...
...look upon the new technology with cautious enthusiasm. At the very least, universities should manage to use technology to engage students in a more active process of thinking and problem solving that will help them learn more effectively. At best, the new machines may also be a catalyst to hasten the development of new insights into human cognition and new ways of helping students learn...
...nations do not move to the negotiating table simply because it's a nice piece of furniture," Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne A. Motley told a congressional committee. "If anyone knows of a more effective way to create a bargaining situation with the Sandinistas, let us know." Administration officials hasten to add, however, that the U.S. has no intention of using U.S. ground forces to bring the Sandinistas to heel. "It's just not in the cards," says a White House official. "It's not in the President's mind...
...result of Kirkpatrick's remarks may have been to hasten an audience with the President. Instead of waiting for the final 1984 meeting of the General Assembly, Kirkpatrick hopes to talk to Reagan about her future within the next week or so. At that point, both her intentions and those of her boss should become clear once...