Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After warning that we should remain cautious while encouraging the Soviet Union on its path toward becoming a "less threatening" nation, Reagan failed to offer any further suggestions as to how to reduce tensions between the two superpowers. And, though he went on to mention the budget deficit as one of his regrets, he declined to speak further, saying, "I'm going to hold my tongue...
...space for it teachers to write or teach adequately. There is almost no place where faculty below the associate level can sit in quiet and privacy and think--a process necessary for the writing with which we earn tenure, another fact the University has forgotten. Most of us have less than ideal work environments at home, thanks to the distant, small and decrepit housing forced on us by the yuppification of Harvard Square, to which the University's hotel will of course contribute. Everyone is also aware that freshmen and Writing Center students do not want a structure for transients...
...restaurant or view going to attract? Second, why should community residents, who complain that Harvard offers nothing to Cambridge at large, welcome a building that deliberately adds nothing ot the life of the Square, shutting out everyone but paying guests? Finally does anyone expect Graham Gund to design anything less silly and overpriced than his gatehouse at Johnston Gate? (And anyone who thinks of Gund as a preservationist and friend of the community should recall that he is also a very wealthy developer and read up on his current attempts to muscle a commercial development onto Arrow Street over city...
...committee plans to evaluate the honor code--which says simply that a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do--to make distinctions between violations of the honor code and violations of administrative regulations, which might invite less stringent punishment...
...stock scheme has rocked the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Though he has not been directly implicated, his approval rating plunged in December to less than 30%, the lowest level in his 14 months in office. The scandal seemed to magnify public displeasure with Takeshita's sweeping tax-reform bill, including a 3% national consumption tax, which he pushed through the Diet, Japan's parliament, in December...