Word: junes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this venerable institution, I have recently been over-whelmed by the pomp and circumstance surrounding a Harvard graduation; picnics, lobster clambakes, dances, house ceremonies, yard ceremonies, church ceremonies, etc. After surviving four years of hard work, seniors do deserve a graduation to remember. However, my growing anticipation of June 7-9 has been darkened by my growing concern about holding the event during the middle of the working week and the expense of graduation that must be incurred by the student and his/her family...
...Thompson came to Harvard from Kenai, Alaska, where his nearest neighbor was more than two miles away. After a "horrible" freshman year, he transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara. But, like Pananen, Thompson reconsidered his original decision to leave Cambridge. The anthropology major will graduate in June, having written his thesis on a small group of commercial fishermen in southwestern Alaska...
When the Labor Department announced the U.S. unemployment figures for April, the news was so good it might be bad. The jobless rate fell to 5.4%, down from 5.6% in March, and the lowest level since June 1974. That was encouraging to those who found work, but the news raised fears of renewed inflation. Reason: pressure on the job market could lead to a widespread rise in wages that, in turn, could boost prices...
Bush, for the moment at least, is in a bind. Asked for his views on child care recently, the Vice President quipped, "I'm for it," before more seriously voicing deep concern. Right now all he can do is promise to make a major speech on the issue in June and put forth some guidelines (no new federal bureaucracy; help only to the poor, not the middle class) that will shape his position once...
Written by a senior official of the Aviation Ministry, the letter clearly reflected many of Mikhail Gorbachev's ideas for political reform and was undoubtedly intended to set the stage for the Soviet Communist Party Conference that begins on June 28. More volleys may lie ahead...