Word: owing
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...Cuba's dependence on the Soviet Union, which has enabled Castro to survive the OAS embargo and gives the Soviets their only toehold in the Americas, is becoming increasingly burdensome to both Havana and Moscow. The Cubans owe the Russians at least $4 billion, and the debt grows by about $1.5 million daily. The Soviets would like to be rid of this economic drain, and now, in an era of détente with the U.S., they have apparently given up any hope-for the present at least-of turning Cuba into an offensive military base. Castro no doubt...
...OWE publishes a regular newsletter, "'Cliffe Notes," it will bring you "A Woman's Guide to Harvard" in your registration folder, and it is behind the distribution of the prize booklet to all students at registration. All in all, it is the most viable liason Radcliffe women have to other women in the University...
...instance, the Office of Women's Education (OWE)--one of President Horner's major visible accomplishments of her first year in office--is, very simply, your friend. Headed by Judith Walzer and staffed by Connie Gersick and Shannon Randall, the office is Radcliffe's built-in insurance that administrators and students will not stare at each other across a gap, but will regularly interact...
Amidst the flurry of its fact-finding--about concentration patterns, discrepancies in the prize money available to, and won by, Radcliffe students, women who are older than the usual college age and minority women--the OWE cannot help but make a difference for women at Harvard. Facts help to dispel myths, or at least to make them comprehensible...
...apart from its research, the OWE seeks out women and tries to address some of their problems: It will give special attention to women who are potential concentrators in the sciences so that Harvard does not dissuade them from fields not generally associated with women, continue its meetings on crimes against women, and investigate the Radcliffe student's experience as a minority in Harvard classrooms...