Word: marches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the scheduling office's assurances, within minutes of starting the exam on March 13, it became obvious that the proctor assigned to administer the exam to me knew very little calculus. He did not know the names of mathematical symbols on the test and resorted to describing each symbol to me by its physical appearance. Thus an integral sign, the most basic symbol of calculus, was "something that looks like an 's'." Those who are not blind often fail to appreciate that I have never seen mathematical symbols. Blind people use the Nemeth Braille Code of Mathematic and Scientific...
...March nighttime assaults on students outside Boylston Hall and Widener library have led to no additions to Harvard Yard security. Few lights and rather scattered, often nonfunctional phones make Harvard students and their friends easy targets. It is for those who walk through Harvard Yard--and other parts of the campus--to provide their own protection...
Aoun's bold moves to assert his authority triggered the new fighting. In March, Aoun's 20,000-man army took on the Muslims, imposing a sea blockade of five of their illegal ports, used mainly for smuggling drugs and guns. Druse warlord Walid Jumblatt's militia and 40,000 Syrian troops responded with continuous bombardments of Christian neighborhoods. Aoun's forces hit back in kind...
...document describes the then Vice President as assuring the government of Honduras that it would be well rewarded if it would continue to harbor contra camps on its territory and funnel military supplies to the rebels. Bush visited Tegucigalpa on March 16, 1985. According to the evidence, he told Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova that the U.S. would carry out a promise from Reagan to increase and expedite military and economic aid in return for this help...
Worst of all, Rogers was made to feel like an outcast at the school where she taught for twelve years. On March 13 headmaster Timothy Burns told Rogers that she could not return immediately and that he did not know what "we are going to do about this." The next day the school received a bomb threat, which turned out to be a hoax. Then, when Rogers did not receive her contract renewal on the same day as other faculty members, she fired off an angry letter to the parents of her students, saying she did not pose a risk...