Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dudley House senior has won this year's Fay Prize--the highest honor bestowed on an undergraduate by Radcliffe College...
Before marching on the plant, members of the organizing Clamshell Alliance formed a large circle to honor the Chinese killed this weekend when troops crushed the student protest in Beijing...
Except for the top veteran commanders, for whom having a peasant background is a badge of honor, officers are mostly urbanites, educated at one of the army's 25 technical academies. Their pay has not kept up with China's inflationary pace. A major earns about 250 yuan a month (roughly $67), while a hard-working Shanghai taxi driver can clear 2,000 yuan ($537). Such perks as free housing and food allowances, however, compensate somewhat for the income differential. Deng, moreover, has worked to maintain ties with the leadership by insisting on faster promotions based on skill rather than...
...suspicion that the Congress would turn into a totally rubber-stamp legislature, however, was dispelled minutes into the opening session, when a Latvian delegate strode uninvited to the podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that...
...house on Appian Way to provide women with access to a Harvard education. Private arrangements are made with members of the Harvard faculty to teach women students. It is later incoporated as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. In 1894, Radcliffe College is officially established, named in honor of Ann Radcliffe, whose gift of œ100 in 1643 established Harvard's first scholarship fund...