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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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This exclusion, so painfully obvious on Harvard's campus, is clearly not what the BSA stands for, by any means. The BSA is, rather, a support group, whose purpose is to offset the nonacceptance of Harvard Blacks which the final clubs themselves choose to play a part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forced Exclusion | 10/20/1988 | See Source »

HARVARD could do a lot to boost women's confidence. If there are few female role models, women have little to strive for, little to emulate and no sense that being a Harvard professor is attainable. The obvious solution: tenure more women faculty and recruit more women graduate students. If, according to Krupnick's survey, women will only participate a lot in sections with a female majority and a female section leader, then certainly there should be more women teaching fellows--and maybe even the option of a majority female section...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: A Silent Minority | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...Most Obvious Name-Dropping. Quayle's assertion that Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and Britain's Margaret Thatcher "know" him. He has met each only once, and for no longer than a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, the Omaha Oscars | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...whose 1985 retrospective in London, Paris and Boston beguiled the crowds and disappointed everyone else. Degas was much harder to take, with his spiny intelligence (never Renoir's problem), his puzzling mixtures of categories, his unconventional cropping, his "coldness." The long continuities of his work have not always been obvious. Degas was the most modern of artists, but his kind of modernity, entailing a passionate working relationship with the past, hardly exists today. How we would have bored him, with our feeble jabber of postmodernist "appropriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Degas As Never Before | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...Brady commission confirmed that heavy trading of speculative "derivative products," like stock-index futures, exacerbated the October crash. It is obvious that futures, options and their kin are securities and should be treated as such. Their trading should be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fact that they are now regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has simply turned the securities markets into commodity markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Crash, One Year Later | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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