Word: interational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembly tabled a motion to begin to seek some kind of University recognition after Carl Rosen '80, chairman of the committee for inter- and extra-University affairs, said, "I don't think there's any reason for our existence if we can't rely solely on the support of the student body...
Foreign confidence is dwindling. American firms with Iranian operations are cutting commitments. The once bulging Hilton and Inter-Continental hotels are less than half full. The U.S. embassy in Tehran has drawn up mass-evacuation plans in case the troubles grow worse. Foreign workers have been quitting the country, and almost overnight Iran's five-star credit rating on the international capital markets has disappeared. Says one U.S. banker: "You don't lend when the tanks are in Constitution Square...
Soon Western tourists will be swarming into China, occupying the six or seven Inter-Continental Hotels that are to be designed, constructed and operated by Americans. In Peking, officials are planning to revive an institution that once stood as a symbol of Western cultural imperialism: a foreign-run university with a foreign faculty teaching technical subjects to 10,000 Chinese students-in English...
...reintroduce an omnibus bill. The House Judiciary Committee on its part shows no sign of wavering in its recently created position. Justice, according to one high ranking official, would prefer omnibus reform but could live with a series of bills. The stage is already set for the kind of inter-house legislative battle on procedure in which the omnibus approach might prevail. It will not prevail, however, on its merits, because a genuine debate on merits has been submerged in the claims that the House somehow avoided its duty when it raised questions about the omnibus procedure...
...academic world is that few have the skills needed to "sell themselves" to prospective employers, despite their research, writing and information skills. "The fact that they have a Ph.D. and have taught esoteric courses is worthless," from the businessman's point of view, Robert Pomeroy, deputy advisor of the Inter-American Development Bank, told the students...