Word: meeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, University administrators assert that HOLLIS will be able to accommodate any new technology developed to help meet the rapidly expanding needs of Harvard's system...
...keen sense of balance: when he finds himself out on a limb, he usually edges back to a less shaky perch. After finally realizing that his Administration's less than enthusiastic reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev's headline-catching arms-control gambits was alienating the NATO allies he will meet with this week in Brussels, the President decided a more positive response was required...
...extent that he de- Communized the economy and discredited ideology, Deng diminished the party's claim to legitimacy. He left the party all the more vulnerable to the flood of discontent that has so stunned the world in recent days. An improvement in living standards is not enough to meet the needs of the people. As a student banner in Tiananmen Square put it, WE LOVE RICE, BUT WE LOVE DEMOCRACY MORE...
TIME's Walter Isaacson and Michal Donath were the only journalists present as the two men talked, sitting side by side, Havel animated and excited, Dubcek reserved and stiff. "I was expecting every miracle today except that I would meet you," said the playwright. The aging politician recalled one of Havel's plays, though none have been performed in Czechoslovakia since 1968. Havel leaped up and gathered a stack of foreign editions that had been smuggled into the country. "I will sign them for you in green ink because green is the color of hope, and I am an optimist...
...speech to some 1,800 stockholders, Rawl accepted Exxon's "responsibility to clean up the spill and meet our obligations to those who were adversely affected by it." A team of independent board members, Rawl announced, would investigate management's possible culpability. He promised that an environmentalist would be named to Exxon's board, but when pressed, he admitted, "I don't know who that would be, and I don't know what the criteria would...