Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate concern was that our space was inadequate to accommodate this event: Ms. Murray had spoken of an audience of 150 (or perhaps more), and the seating capacity of our lecture hall is 144. We are completing a major building project at the School, one which requires an electrical shutdown throughout Andover Hall. Only three holiday weekends have been available for us to accomplish this work (Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, and Thanksgiving), and the conference date of November 11 conflicted with one of a very few possible times for us to complete this essential job. In fact, a complete shutdown...
...first to start things going. When the U.S. rejected negotiations on naval forces, the Soviet Union made a big concession and said it was willing to wait and hold negotiations on strategic weapons and armed forces in Europe. Little is said about this nowadays, but it gave a major impetus to the negotiations. If you consider this to be a concession, it was, but if it were not for this concession we would still be marching in place...
...realities then compel you to take other decisions. From this point of view, the armed forces were pushed into participating in long-term military activities, and, of course, we could see that there was no prospect of a military solution. There were political reasons too, but that was a major reason that our troops were withdrawn...
...fully accept that this parliament is the supreme body of state power. There is no other body in this country that can make major decisions on domestic and foreign policy. Our military, by the way, especially the command, is very disciplined and brought up in a spirit of respect for the bodies of power in this country. In the U.S., there are many who underestimate this factor and think that in the Soviet Union the highest military command can get its own way on major matters. This is absolutely out of the question. Your estimation of your own military would...
With just under five minutes left in the first, Yale defender Scott Matusovich went to the penalty box on a five-minute major. The new version of Harvard's five-forward power play--Weisbrod, Young, Vukonich and sophomores Pete Ciavaglia and Ted Donato--took...