Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott said, the University's amount ofcontrol over its fundraising ventures "is anissue" because "once the decision is made to makean investment, it's hard to change your mind...
Underground. The word brings many unsavory adjectives to mind: dark, dank, clandestine, illegal. But in Japan the "underground" is becoming the new frontier and the best hope for solving one of the country's most intractable problems. With a population nearly half the size of the U.S.'s squeezed into an area no bigger than Montana, Japan has virtually no room left in its teeming cities. Developers have built towering skyscrapers and even artificial islands in the sea, but the space crunch keeps getting worse. Now some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments...
...Nicaragua, has good reason to be optimistic that things may be different under George Bush. The expectation in foreign policy circles is that instead of trying to make Ortega cry uncle, the Bush Administration -- by necessity as much as by choice -- will approach Nicaragua with something less drastic in mind than toppling its government. In large part, that will happen because the contras are in suspended animation, not demobilized but with little hope of renewed military aid from the U.S. Instead, the U.S. will put its weight behind the 18-month-old Arias peace plan, as well as explore...
...term gunrunning brings to mind images of swift boats landing rifles on shadowy and foreign shores. But the gunrunning that plagues the U.S. these days is more a matter of illicit firearms stashed in vehicles rolling boldly up interstate highways. Federal law strictly limits the resale of weapons. However, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold...
...stayed for 11 months--and in his mind, at least, he's never left. Kremer is founder and executive director of World Teach, a non-profit Harvard group that has sent 175 college-aged students to teach in rural Kenya and China since 1987. To hear the Winthrop House alumnus talk, making the four-year transition from undergraduate life at Harvard to teaching in Kenya to working in Cambridge supplying teachers has been a matter of course...