Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are essentially two reform options: increasing al ready high payroll taxes, or reducing benefits. Reagan favors the latter route, and during last week's speech he dutifully re iterated aspects of the reform package that his aides believe would save $82 billion through 1987, thus putting the Social Security system back on the road to solvency. Among them...
...plays that appear on page 2 of the Crimson. Students who can review the latest Godard extravaganzas will be accepted with open arms. The same goes for those who can unravel the myriad complexities of national politics and institutions. The former are never forced to write politics and the latter needn't ever have seen a play, let alone reviewed one. You just have to be able to do your thing well. Many members of the University community read Crimson editorials (notice we didn't say they agreed with them), and they do have an impact on the real world...
...four openings are in American government, Chinese politics, Japanese politics, and political philosophy. The latter post was vacated when Michael Walzer, former professor of Government, left in the spring...
...University--and every other large economic entity--will always act in its own interest. But Harvard may finally have perceived that its longterm continuing interest lies in good relations with those who live nearby. Or it may simply have decided that in one case expediency dictated cooperation. If the latter is true, then all the bargaining sessions and compromise plans are unimpressive. If they represent no philosophical commitment, then the next time some conflict arises, the University will return to business as usual...
...Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further. He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic, although Ebla was closer to Ugarit in both geography...