Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chair marks the first time that Radcliffe will have the opportunity to attract visiting professors to the school, said Director of Public Information Aida K. Press. She added that the chair will be granted to a professor "whose work will promote inter-disciplinary thinking in the social sciences...
...cautiously worded report issued in May, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States reviewed a shower of accumulated charges against the Sandinistas. The accusations have ranged from illegal killings, disappearances and torture to indiscriminate air attacks on Miskito settlements, unlawful expropriation and cultural genocide. The commission recommended that the Sandinistas hold a conference of reconciliation with the Miskitos to improve the situation. The Nicaraguans accepted the idea in principle, but balked at calling such a meeting, the commission reported, under "prevailing circumstances...
...imported pigs were eating such food as wheat shorts and soya supplemented by vitamins and minerals, and drinking water from taps-all luxuries unknown to most Haitians, much less the old black hogs. Once the island is declared free of disease, the Haitian government, aided by a $27 million Inter-American Development Bank loan, will restock the island pig population, establishing breeding and slaughtering facilities. The fear, however, is that this ambitious commercial plan will bypass the peasant...
...work stations," which are smaller than the mainframe system at the Science Center, but more powerful than the average personal computer. Eventually these smaller centralized units may be installed in locations throughout the University such as in the Houses. Eventually they may also be wired together to allow inter-terminal communications...
...April 1982, President Reagan issued Executive Order 12356, widening the executive branch's discretion to classify certain research as "sensitive" in the national security context. Although some similarly restrictive attempts have been blocked by Congress, many inter-agency regulations bypass congressional review. In April of this year, for instance, the Department of Defense said it would place pre-publication clauses in some of its grants and contracts, though it has since relaxed some of the restrictions...