Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ends in January, had hoped that last week's trade talks in Montreal would produce significant progress, especially on knotty problems like agricultural subsidies and intellectual property rights. He did not get it. After four days of exhausting round-the-clock negotiations, the talks ended in deadlock on several major issues, forcing a four-month extension of discussions. Said a philosophical Yeutter: "This provides additional opportunities for creative thinking...
...Western belief that the Soviets reserved the right to "lie and cheat," as Reagan put it eight years ago, if it served their interests. Gorbachev, who has reversed long-standing Kremlin policy by agreeing to on-site inspections of military installations, attempted in his U.N. speech to remove a major issue of compliance with the Antiballistic Missile Treaty: the Krasnoyarsk radar station. He said Moscow would accept the "dismantling and refitting" of certain components, and place the facility under U.N. control. At his lunch with Reagan and Bush just after the speech, one American asked, "Did we hear that word...
...example, when dealing with a major medical center such as Boston you can expect an unusually high ratio of physicians to population because many patients are referred to teaching hospitals from out of state and even from out of the country...
...report that Huggins wrote for the Ford Foundation in 1985 on the state of Afro-American Studies, the Harvard historian says that "I have written here mainly of historians, in part because they were asked to play a major role in [the founding of] Afro-American studies." Huggins, whose report examines the future of the discipline as well as its past, went on to say that "to the extent there was a field, it depended on [the historians...
...ever wonder just how moral a university can be? Not only did Harvard devote endowment funds to an ethically questionable, not to mention financially risky, hostile takeover for no other purpose than to quickly turn a profit, but they did it over a company in which they were a major shareholder. This same company, RJR-Nabisco, has not only received harsh criticism and censure for agressive and unethical business practices in many Asian and Third World nations but is also the fourth largest investor in the apartheid state of South Africa...