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Word: mottoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite motto among Harvard clerical union organizers is "dignity, democracy and a dental plan." But beginning next year, this motto may have to be revised because of a University decision this week to provide an estimated $1-million a year dental insurance coverage for Harvard faculty and staff members...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Harvard's Non-Union Workers Win $1 Million Dental Care Package | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

Even the slogan has been cut back this year. Unlike past years, no clever motto has been created. Instead there is just a big Harvard shield with the number 60 next...

Author: By John N. Rosenthai, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

Treadup's Christian faith suffers in China, but only in the sense that he comes to reject his mission as simply signing up souls for Christ. When he arrives as a young man the motto is "Evangelize the world in this generation." After 40 years of rebellions, war, Japanese internment and Communist revolution, his ambition has shrunk to feeding the few people left in his village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Awakening a Sleeping Giant the Call | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...Girl Scouts' motto, because unpreparedness is precisely what killed the Radcliffe heavyweight crew team's chances this weekend at the San Diego Crew Classic in Mission Bay in San Diego...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Bay Race Proves Impossible for Heavies | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...conferences a year, on the tsetse fly, on slave labor, on trade tariffs, on the future of the Australian wombat. Conferences are supposed to begin and end punctually, and then the delegates depart to make room for the next set of delegates. That is the system, and the motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin is "Dominus providebit" (The Lord will provide). This week the $100-a-day hotels are filling up with visitors to the world's biggest auto show, which is being held at the new Palexpo exhibition hall. Next week U.S. and Soviet diplomats arrive to resume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting Place of the World | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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