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...report on the the matter, the GAO said the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circumvented the law in January by directing the NIH--the largest source of Harvard's research funding--to finally only 5000 of the 5500 renewable one-year grants for which Congress had appropriated Fiscal Year 1986 money...
Nuzi, a site in upper Mesopotamia, was once a provincial center of the mysterious Hurrian people whose writings continue to baffle archaeologists. The Semitic Museum's collection of Nuzi artifacts is the largest in the world, according to museum Director Frank M. Cross...
...rally, which University activists say will be the largest demonstration on the Harvard campus in years, may draw as many as 5000 demonstrators, according to Bozzotto...
Such assessments, aside from being self-serving, ignored the network's serious contributions. In January 1977, ABC telecast Roots, a twelve-hour multigenerational saga about American slaves that ran for eight consecutive nights. The scheduling tactic was unprecedented, the results staggering. Roots drew the largest audience of any entertainment program in history and helped make the mini-series form a prime-time staple. Since then, ABC has produced its share of ambitious dramatic fare, from the 18-hour The Winds of War to The Day After, the controversial film about the impact of nuclear war on a small town...
...much as 20% in some areas. Inflation is expected to reach 20% by the end of the year, and last week the government increased the general sales tax from 10% to 12%, double the level of a year ago. Days later, at Vaal Reefs, the world's largest gold mine, black workers struck for higher pay, in defiance of the mine's management, who insisted that the walkout was illegal. As unrest continued in several black townships, Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela, said in a television interview that she foresaw nothing but more bloodshed...