Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lubbers praised the concept of inter-superpower viewing, calling it "vastly educational." Speaking of Creighton's experience, he said, "The initial response was mystification. Imagine the amazement of students who had seen Russia as something extremely mysterious, if not frightening...
...Administrators are probably worried that this would encourage large parties where "anyone off the street could come in and pay," as one house master said. Such a claim does not give much credit to house committees, who could require student I.D.'s, make money off the parties, and encourage inter-house mingling...
...dramatic reversal, the Administration wants the World Bank to do more. The organization, the U.S. feels, should increase its lending and expand the joint loans it makes with commercial banks to developing countries. The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, in Baker's view, could increase their disbursements to the major debtors by roughly 50% above the current annual level of nearly $6 billion...
...addition, Harvard expanded its mainframe, database computer system for upper-level problem solving and began the long-awaited process of connecting every major administrative office with equipment for inter-office transactions...
...wonder, then, that three years later Harvard remains the only Ivy League institution not to have given any organized support to the growing, inter disciplinary field. It is also no wonder that the Women's Studies committee one year ago could not lure renowned literary critic Elaine Showalter away from an offer at Princeton, which--unlike Harvard--has already demonstrated its commitment to the field...