Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midsummer, government officials predict, the water level in the reservoir above Aswan, known as Lake Nasser, will drop to 492 ft., from 574 ft. a decade ago, slashing power output by 55% and causing isolated power shortages. If the level dips much below that, Aswan's powerful turbines, which provide 25% of Egypt's electricity, must be shut down, crippling industrial development and hampering efforts to reclaim desert land for cultivation...
...remember some guy who fell off his upper-level balcony. He was playing basketball the next day," says Risbergs of the Riviera Hotel...
...Sandinistas, on the other hand, are hoping to cripple severely the contra resistance--putting them in a greatly weakened position for their first high-level face-to-face negotiations within Nicaragua this week. Indeed, Costa Riean President and Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias Sanchez, who has repeatedly criticized the Nicaraguan government's failure to comply with the peace plan he designed, denounced last week's Honduran raid as a blow to the peace process and said it revealed that the Sandinistas are more concerned with eliminating the contras than negotiating with them...
Second, and perhaps more immediately relevant to students and faculty at Harvard-Radcliffe, the lack of permanent faculty in this field creates hardships for those wishing to study American women's history at either the undergraduate or graduate level. As head tutor in Women's Studies, I am particularly concerned because our program depends on the offerings of the regular departments, and I find it difficult to advise students attempting to develop a plan of study that requires not only introductory but also advanced courses in American women's history. As anyone who has attempted to find a thesis adviser...
...both History and Social Studies he has advised half a dozen summa and prize-winning theses in three years, some written by students who might otherwise have despaired of studying American history at Harvard. Most important, impressive, and remarkable, given the demands placed on scholars at the associate professor level, Allen Steinberg never gives in to the easy analysis or explanation. In lecture and discussion he is forever reaching for the perfect word, or the delicate analysis, which makes a student's mental juices flow...