Word: information
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even, according to the book, advocated a policy of "surveillance," asking tenants to inform the university if their neighbors become unaffiliated. For example, if a woman who worked for Columbia for 15 years and lived with her family in a university-owned building were to die, her husband and family would be evicted from their home--that is, if their neighbors informed on them. More recently, Columbia has tightened the net by computerizing housing and personnel records to catch "illegitimate" tenants...
...briefing was designed to bring together "a number of leading experts in different areas" to inform the President about "a broad range of issues relate to Soviet relations," according to White House spokesman Michael Guest...
...loitered in the vicinity of Crete. At 4:37 p.m., they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...
...week column by its Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter Sydney Schanberg, who wrote passionately against real estate speculators and presumably displeased the publisher. Schanberg subsequently resigned. The editorials in most papers these days discuss the issues with the evenhandedness of a sociologist and the fervor of an accountant. They aim to inform and perhaps to persuade but not to dictate. The only outrageously opinionated fellow left is the cartoonist, no longer confined to illustrating the boss's prejudices and free to tweak Reagan or ridicule Tip O'Neill. In the past presidential election several newspapers declined to endorse a candidate. It wasn...
Requiring undergraduates to sign an additional contract when they enroll--an honor code--would apparently only serve to inform students that at Harvard you are not only a scholar, but a policeman...