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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mostly students in the Square in those days. Now it's transportation center--a lot of commuters and a lot of people who are neither students nor commuters...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Alumnus To Get Degree After 50 Years | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...class didn't have ready-made plans, and that kept many avenues open to them. "In a sense knowing exactly what you want to do closes you off from so much, even though pre-professionalism may make things easier in the short run." Having a clear direction obviates a lot of self-searching, she concedes, but, carried too far, it encourages mental rigidity--and flexibility, she feels, was one of the greatest gifts she received from her education by the Charles...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Depression and War Left Their Marks | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...better to have Spanish-speaking students when we treat so many Spanish speaking patients here," Poussaint noted. "Minority students have empathy with low-income families. When white students have a lot of minority students as colleagues, they will know better how to treat minority patients. They used to see minorities as janitors or charity cases...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Director of Student Affairs Leaves Medical School | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

These days Flick, a shy-looking industrialist with horn-rimmed spectacles, has a problem, and it may cause a lot more smashed crockery in those Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes Mercedes cars. Under West Germany's tax code, Flick has to spend all of that sum by Dec. 31 in ways that will "benefit the national economy"-or else pay 50% in capital gains and income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: It's Hard to Spend a Billion | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Llewellyn J. Marczuk '78 said the comasters are very involved in House life. "They go to every intramural game," Marczuk said, adding they are approachable and have "added a lot to my Harvard experience...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and Maxwell Gould, S | Title: Winthrop Masters To Step Down in '79 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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