Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fourth essay, on the '60s, focuses on the Vietnam conflict. He was listed in a survey as writer outstandingly in favor of continuing American involvement in Vietnam, but Updike felt misrepesented. So he wrote a letter to The New York Times in 1966, "claiming that not only I but the president (whoever he was) was not an ostrich...
...front page article appearing March 15 incorrectly stated that Expository Writing Instructor David Heller had been dismissed after a disagreement with Expository Writing Program Director Richard H. Marius. According to Heller, Marius acknowledged a letter of resignation the instructor submitted the day before Heller was allegedly dismissed. Heller said Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence is reviewing the case...
Minnesota Coach Doug Woog approached Vukonich after a hockey game one day in the spring of his senior year, when the acceptance letter to Harvard was already in the mail...
...first, Bush swore that he would "take no part, directly or indirectly, in any partisan political activity of any kind." But that didn't satisfy Nunn and Jackson. They demanded a more explicit promise. Finally, and over Bush's objections, Ford sent Congress a letter ruling out Bush as a potential vice- presidential candidate. "Yeah, we beat him back then," says Nunn, "but you notice where he's sitting today." As for '92 and an ultimate Bush-Nunn face-off, that could make the present skirmish look like child's play...
Last month the government signed a letter of intent with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in return for $4.32 billion in new credits through 1991. Among other things, the agreement promised an end to Venezuelan subsidies on an array of products, including imported raw materials and gasoline (at 13 cents per gal., perhaps the cheapest in the world). Exempted from the price hikes were 18 staples, including bread, rice and chicken. Perez also promised to raise fees for government-provided goods and services and to allow the bolivar to float downward on international currency markets, a move that would boost...