Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fanfare for the system will be on hold until September 29, when an official opening party--balloons included--will be held in the Widener reading room. But HOLLIS has already begun to change the way Harvard students, faculty and staff conduct their research in what is the world's largest academic collection. The head of the University library system, Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba, calls HOLLIS "the most important step forward for the University library in many decades...
...weeks, four of the council's seven members had held out against the court-ordered plan, but increasing voter complaints as well as the threat of massive firings and eventual bankruptcy finally forced two councilmen, Nicholas Longo and Peter Chema, to back down. "I knew many of those people who would have been terminated," said Longo. "I'd been to their weddings, the baptisms of their children." This week the council members will present recommendations to the court that they hope will make the housing plan more palatable to its opponents. Said Longo of the ordeal that ultimately cost Yonkers...
...regime began to buckle under the pressure. At an extraordinary session on Saturday, the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party gave way -- at least, partway -- to the popular clamor and declared an apparent end to the country's 26 years of one-party domination. The B.S.P.P. said elections would be held and multiple parties would participate. But the government set no date for the balloting and continued to refuse to meet the main demand of the burgeoning opposition forces, that it relinquish power...
...ruled Burma for the next 26 years, U Nu asserted last week, "Though I have been robbed of my power, I am still the legitimate Prime Minister." In a remarkable display of Burmese-style chutzpah, U Nu named a government and announced that general elections would be held on Oct. 9 to ratify his claim to power...
...eight years at a world-class level of competition is almost an eternity. Yet it is a dozen years since U.S. and Soviet teams met at a Summer Olympics. Historians will long debate President Carter's 1980 decision following the invasion of Afghanistan to snub the only Olympics ever held in the Soviet Union. They will debate as well whether the Soviets avoided Los Angeles four years later out of fear about security, as claimed, or as retaliatory tit for tat. To most athletes, the underlying stratagems do not matter: to them, the very definition of an Olympics is that...