Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew team has been preparing for its season since the first week of school. More than 700 hours went into preparing for less than six minutes of race time Saturday. Everyone in the boat must push themselves 150 percent for those few minutes. As West marked, "There are no halftimes to regroup...
...other interests are joining the educators' call for a less restrictive information policy. To Congress, the Iran-contra affair revealed the dangers of excessive government secrecy. Businessmen concerned about America's economic "competitiveness" have also mounted an attack on the Administration's controls. They argue that the failure to share scientific information has weakened the United States' ability to match foreign business innovations and will lead to economic stagnation...
...small voice can barely be heard in this University, much less budge its decisionmakers. Activist opposition similarly has little effect on actual policy at Harvard. The only way the workers are going to have their voices heard--and more importantly, acted upon--is to get union representation, backing by an institutional power strong enough to go head to head with the Harvard administration. A union legally acknowledged as Harvard's equal cannot be ignored...
...Raymond, where a small group of youngsters had gathered. Two gunmen stepped out of the car and opened fire into the shrieking crowd. Witnesses later told of a "river of blood" in the street. Deshawn Holly, 5, was hit with four bullets but miraculously survived. Stacey Childress, 19, was less lucky. Of the eleven people shot in the five- minute spree, Childress was the sole fatality. The presumed motive for the bloodbath: a drug deal gone...
...flashy publicity that protests, shanties, and sit-ins do, but activists learned two years ago that boardroom tactics have an effect in combating a boardroom mentality. When SASC activists published a scathing report on Harvard's South Africa Internship Program in January of 1986, the University faced public condemnation. Less than two months later, the program had been cancelled...