Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Harvard prepares to entertain newly admitted members of the Class of '90, prospective freshman Rachel Safman won't be able to join the group of newspaper editors, valedictorians and debate champions...
...shelter under the auspices of one of the social service organizations. The University has an obligation, both institutionally and as a large collection of concerned citizens, to step forward to do what it can to solve a community problem. Harvard's best first step would be to join the fight to repeal this law and help to clear the way for more shelters. Further steps will require more time, study and, above all, a firm committment on the part of the University and all its members to help the homless people in the area...
Neither did teachers. No one could have foreseen the final six months of her 37 years. Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe was a wife, a mother of two small children and a dedicated high school teacher in Concord, N.H., when NASA announced last July that she had been chosen to join a shuttle crew. She was amazed that her application had brought her the top prize, and she was not the only one. A school official in Concord recalled, "To us, she seemed average. But she turned out to be remarkable. She handled success so beautifully...
...Force in 1969, became a specialist in tactical communications satellites at the Air Force Space Division in El Segundo, Calif., and rose to the rank of captain. During his time in the service, he worked on advanced tactical communications satellites. He left the Air Force in 1973 to join the Hughes Aircraft Co. as an engineer. There, Jarvis was again working on the design of advanced satellites when NASA asked Hughes to recommend one of its employees to be a payload specialist on the shuttle. Jarvis was among 600 workers who applied...
...same evening, Botha appeared on television channels that broadcast in the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu languages and told their predominantly black viewers, "The time has come for us South Africans to join together to negotiate the structures that we want." From its headquarters in neighboring Zambia, however, the A.N.C. dismissed Botha's overtures, which it said demonstrated that he was "committed to the maintenance of white-minority domination...