Word: major
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong team and their farm system isn't that good, but that could be a blessing in disguise since I might be able to rise a little more quickly in the major leagues," Stenhouse, an economics major, said. Although he's excited by the prospect of playing professional baseball, Stenhouse said he is planning to graduate from Harvard, either by completing two more fall semesters or by waiting until next year's draft pick and playing ball for Harvard next spring...
Radcliffe's desire to regain financial control was a major reason it insisted on the 1977 agreement. Lyman explains, "When you fold your corporation into another corporation, it's over--you eliminate any power you have. And Harvard had other uses for our money." Harvard may not, for example, feel the same urgency about maintaining Radcliffe's Bunting Institute or its Data Resource center, both of which provide opportunities for women's studies research...
Solti studied in Budapest with Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, and Ernst von Dohnanyi. Originally a pianist, he has since conducted virtually every major orchestra in the West. He became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969, and was knighted in 1971, when he left the Royal Opera House...
...this time, she says, she began to see "a tendency towards a group who was assuming Radcliffe should merge with Harvard and be distributed in it. This concerned me because I wasn't sure whether this was quite the way we should go...I realized that money was a major problem, and that lack of money seemed to be the real threat to Radcliffe's survival." So Lyman became interested in fundraising, and it soon became evident that she was good at it. "This is reality, money's a reality, and we should talk about it...I think...
...Engelhard issue demonstrates the ability of students and administrators to resolve major conflicts. Students, especially those on the SASC who advocated total dissociation from Engelhard, are slightly disappointed. Nevertheless they consider the issue closed. The Engelhard Foundation is releived that the publicity and the resulting innuendos have died down. And since the two sides are satisfied, the K-School and the Corporation likewise are happy with the compromise...