Word: hiatus
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...consequence of the hiatus, there are now three times as many first- graders as usual, from those who should have completed their first year in 1988 to those just starting this year. To help unclog the system, U.N. relief workers have developed a "crash course" for Grades 1 through 6 that crams a full 32-week school year into 20 weeks or less in order to advance as many children as quickly as possible...
...council voted by a wide margin to call on Harvard and the military to negotiate the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps back to campus--without academic credit--after a 20-year hiatus...
...extends the Crimson's current hiatus from game action to 18 days, allowing time for more practice and for studying. Harvard's last game...
...events of the council's "ROTC week" are well on their way to becoming a footnote in Harvard history. When the council passed a resolution calling for the return of the Reserve Officers Training Corps to Harvard without acadmeic credit--after a 20-year hiatus--the campus erupted in a heated debate that addressed not only militarism, but also discrimination, academic standards and the memory of protests past...
Backers of the resolution asking Harvard to enter into negotiations to bring ROTC back to the University after a 20-year hiatus seemed taken aback by students' arguments that the military's policy of barring gays and lesbians from service made ROTC's return to campus objectionable...