Word: needed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Rosovsky recognized is that Harvard does not need to change. Harvard can simply wait. The governing boards do not need to accede to anyone's demands. In four years, the crusading first-year activists of today will have graduated, and their successors will have moved on to fresh territory. The disgruntled associate professors denouncing the inequities of the University's tenure system will have fallen victim to it, and moved on to more prestigious jobs at less prestigious institutions...
...Dickinsons "were looking to buy prestige in Boston...Joanne [Dickinson] posed the interests [sic] bluntly, `Charles and I need an identity. We can not very well say we are philanthropists at cocktail parties. We want to be affiliated with Harvard, and we want to invest in something stimulating and established...
...institution and expecting them to conform will only perpetuate those feelings of invisibility. The University should work towards breaking the public silence by giving support and respect to a women's center such as the Forum and to women's groups such as the Women's Clearinghouse...Finally, women need not only recognition, but leadership. Expanding Radcliffe admissions lists will mean little to educated women until the University is willing to increase the number of women...
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said he supported "the main thrust" of Baker's plan but he also reminded the ministers of NATO's need to keep its "robust defense capability...
Attempts to reach Sakharov's home in Moscow by telephone were unsuccessful. Sakharov had suffered from angina, but during a visit to the United States in December 1988, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital determined he did not need heart surgery or a pacemaker after cardiovascular tests...