Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school curricula would be a long-term solution to increasingly pressing social problems. Granted, any exercise in social engineering carries with it certain risks and costs. But the alternative solutions to today's teen problems, which emphasize the inculcation of morality and responsibility, rely on abstractions that are even less subject to human control and, in any case, do not deal directly with the issues at hand...
...Harvard didn't make the common mistake of acting complacent and losing to a less talented opponent. The Crimson claimed its seventh consecutive Haines Cup by cruising past the Midshipmen...
First, Harvard departments, like those in most universities, are notoriously autonomous. They simply do not easily surrender discretion (even to deans, much less to students) over matters that they believe to fall within their legitimate province. Hiring and promotion are two such matters. If I recall correctly, even getting the departments to raise the priority of recruiting minority graduate students proved a daunting task to those administrators charged with prodding the beast back in the 1970s...
...critique of the University's efforts, or lack thereof, to recruit minority professors. But the facts the report highlights are sufficiently shocking to suggest that unless the University heeds the recommendations and acts in a strong manner to rectify the situation, the path of reasoned discourse will soon become less appealing...
United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar declared the occasion a "major stride in the effort to bring peace to Afghanistan," but his audience looked less than convinced. As diplomats from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the U.S. and the Soviet Union gathered in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week to sign an accord that secured the withdrawal of the 115,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan beginning May 15, serious questions remained about a pact that had been under negotiation for the past six years...