Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some differences cause more pain than amusement. Many of the African students say they are perturbed by the constant rivalry among their peers. "In every aspect of student life, there is cutthroat competition at one level or another," says Ndiaye. "There's so much pressure. The students don't have time to socialize," Okhwatenie says...
WHATEVER the plot's faults may be, the film is humorous--not on a cerebral level, but it strikes a primitive chord. And though the film attempts to create meaningful metaphors (the moon and the opera), even these turn out to be comical. But it is hard to believe that 38-year-old Italian-speaking Loretta has never been to the opera before she meets Ronny and equally hard to believe that she is so touched by it (the tears positively roll down her face). The question remains--is this intended to be funny...
Richard O. Carne died some time Saturday morning after 1:30 a.m., when friends last spoke with him. At 10:00 a.m. Michael Albert '89, who had been sleeping on the lower level of their Mather House duplex suite, climbed the stairs to the common room and discovered his body...
...There was a misconception that the people in the unions were malcontents. But in fact, since we established ourselves and B.U. knows were here to stay, we've been a lot more cooperative. The fact is, middle-level managers need to have guidelines for working with their employees, and workers need to have precise job classification," Mizarro says...
...broader level, Mylroie has criticized American leaders for tending to view the entire Middle East region as the scene of U.S. Soviet power struggles and ignoring analyses on a regional level. The reflagging of Kuwaiti tankers last summer, for example, was motivated by an American fear that the Soviets would take the Kuwaitis under their wing if the U.S. did not act first. In addition, a similar fear of growing Soviet influence in the region led to the U.S.'s selling of arms to Iran...