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Word: mets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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After decades of neglect, Athens is at last getting some attention. In March a committee of representatives from all major public service ministries met to discuss a plan to unclog the city, make it livable and clean up its environment. A save-Athens ministry, which will soon begin functioning, will propose heavy taxes to discourage in-migration, and a minimum of $5 billion in public spending for Athens alone. The ministry will also have an extensive investment program for rural areas to encourage residents to stay put. A master plan that will move many government offices to the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: A City Is Dying | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

President Horner and directors of various Radcliffe offices met yesterday with students to discuss the impact of Radcliffe on women's education now and in the future...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Horner and Radcliffe Students Discuss Women and Education | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...Africa. But when the Harvard Corporation budges only a little, students aren't willing to take the step to violence, to physical expulsion of deans or Corporation officials. Brandeis had a building takeover this spring; Harvard probably won't, even though student demands on South Africa aren't being met...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Ten Years After the Strike | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...account of the expedition, told soley from Matthiessen's point of view. It is an account of presence, in every sense of the word. The two men move through space and over distance, from Westernized civilization to its outposts and beyond. The author never met Nepalese or Tibetans completely isolated from the world outside their valleys, but he comes close. For Matthiessen, at least, this is a journey to the core. Time has no meaning in a land where the past is no different than the future, where there is only the present. As a Zen Buddhist, his goal...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: He Stalks Himself | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...teams met earlier this season at the San Diego Classic April 9, where the Crimson heavies crew-sed to victory ahead of the fifth place Bruins...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: S-crew-y | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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