Word: larger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marks the awareness of American officials that the U.S. has a political and economic stake in Iran that it will lose entirely if it refused to talk with the Iranian government. And beyond the pragmatic considerations of ensuring the steady flow of Iranian oil into the United States, any larger political and moral influence would be sacrificed if the U.S. witheld recognition of any nation solely because it objects to the country's political practices...
These deficiencies in Harvard's attitude toward arts curriculum and faculty are only one part of a larger indictment that the performing arts at Harvard are bad. Questions of good and bad are ugly and difficult in almost any context, but the personal nature of art makes such questions even messier. Yet it would not be breaking any code of objectivity to write that the arts at Harvard were bad; President Bok admitted as much when he authorized a committee on the arts six years ago to suggest improvements for Harvard's arts programs...
...women's studies, to security and violence on women's college campuses. In the workshop on security and violence, which I attended, one of the topics discussed was the special problems of security at Radcliffe due to its urban location. A Mount Holyoke delegate mentioned that one of the larger, violence-related problems that they are facing is "date-rape...
...much larger cut would result if, as some commission members urge, the Government raised from 16 to 18 the age at which an unsuccessful job hunter could be called unemployed. Advocates of this argue that so many 16-and 17-year-olds are students that no one can measure how many really want jobs and cannot find them. Others counter that the revision would hide an all too real problem of youth unemployment. The report leaves the question unsettled...
...teaches the seminar, said yesterday only 15 of 30 applicants were admitted. "We took the Adams House applicants, and then we tried for upperclassmen and a balance of fields of concentration," Kiely said, adding, "It was a discussion course, and it wouldn't have been feasible to take a larger group of people...