Word: non
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the selection of Wilson, a non-teaching administrator who has shown little support for women's issues, Radcliffe has not only further distanced itself from the Harvard community; it has also failed to provide women students and faculty with a leader...
...dean in the college--a position assured the Radcliffe president in the 1977 non-merger merger agreement--and the supposed leader of the women's undergraduate community, Horner could have forged a new role for herself, and Radcliffe, within the Harvard administration. She chose not to. Wilson has already indicated plans to do the same...
American executives were too preoccupied last week with spiriting their non- Chinese employees to safety in Hong Kong, Japan or South Korea to make - long-term decisions. Besides, like the Bush Administration, they had trouble finding out what was going on; several were unable to discover whether their Chinese offices and factories were still open and working. The bloodshed and chaos were known to have stopped some operations. Work ceased at Shanghai factories owned partly by Massachusetts-based Foxboro, an electronics company, and aircraft-making McDonnell Douglas. Chemical Bank suspended its efforts to organize a syndicate of U.S. and Japanese...
...three Baltic republics and a hotbed of nationalism. They were provoked by a plan, backed by Gorbachev, to establish a commission empowered to have the final say on constitutional disputes. Baltic deputies viewed the proposal as one more way for Moscow to impose its will on the 14 non-Russian republics. "Our electors ordered us to take care of the sovereignty of our republics," declared Romas Gudaitis, a writer and deputy from Lithuania. Gorbachev was clearly exasperated by the Lithuanians' sudden departure, calling after them, "I ask you to be calm because this is not so simple...
...much on Pinochet's Chile as on the grievances of tribes whose ancestral graves are plundered for museum displays. But the deftly manipulated plot reunites Hillerman's detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, lovelorn men who bury grief in stubborn pursuit of moral order. Their tracking skills and non-Anglo reasoning still prove vital to averting further crime. In place of breathtaking evocations of light and landscape, Hillerman touchingly portrays the outdoorsmen's dislocation amid subways, crowds and unneighborly indifference...