Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe population desperately needs space and security, HRE is turning University land over to transient strangers. Everyone knows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not have enough space for it teachers to write or teach adequately. There is almost no place where faculty below the associate level can sit in quiet and privacy and think--a process necessary for the writing with which we earn tenure, another fact the University has forgotten. Most of us have less than ideal work environments at home, thanks to the distant, small and decrepit housing forced on us by the yuppification...
Jenifer said several schools are exceeding the 30 percent level this semester in an attempt to cope with the 3 percent budget reversions ordered last November to meet Dukakis administration savings goals...
...economist for Smith Barney. The optimists believe that the economy is not overheating and that significant progress has already been made in managing the budget deficit. Says Kudlow: "The important thing is that the deficit is coming down. It is the direction that is far more important than the level of the deficit." Echoes Nakagama: "The worst is behind...
South Yemen wants to forge a political and economic union with North Yemen, its bigger, more conservative and Western-oriented neighbor. Al Attas regards the merger as his country's "crucial" issue. "We are all Yemenis," he says. "We find it very important to raise the level of cooperation between our two countries." To that end, a newfound oil concession near the North Yemen border has been earmarked for joint development. The border is now open, plans for a combined power grid have been drawn, and a fresh draft of a unified constitution is almost ready for ratification. But past...
...stock scheme has rocked the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Though he has not been directly implicated, his approval rating plunged in December to less than 30%, the lowest level in his 14 months in office. The scandal seemed to magnify public displeasure with Takeshita's sweeping tax-reform bill, including a 3% national consumption tax, which he pushed through the Diet, Japan's parliament, in December...