Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Petti said in the release, "I have a great deal to learn about Harvard and its particular human resources challenges. I am looking forward to working with the departments and the Central Administration to establish our human resource goals for the next five to 10 years and then to achieving those goals...
...congressional committees in particular were stunned by the media monster they created. Fitting punishment for their hypocrisy: first, the committees create a courtroom drama, complete with sharp lawyers shredding hapless witnesses on live television; then the committees complain that America has been captivated by a witness's manner instead of concentrating on his words and deeds. Can't have it both ways. Turn an inquiry into a spectacle and you cannot protest that the audience is insufficiently attentive to the transcript. The Iran-contra committees could have modestly pursued their business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy...
...Association. However, most non-minority students look down on the leaders of these groups and fail to take their activities seriously, viewing them as anti-social in purpose and practice. As a result, Harvard ethnic organizations cannot stage any meaningful events that are not directed inward toward their own particular minority community. Students who choose to make these groups an important part of their lives begin to find their friends there and spend much of their time in ethnic activities to the exclusion of the larger Harvard community...
...charge has a particular sting for Gandhi, who took direct responsibility for Punjab on May 11, after dismissing the moderate Sikh government there because of its failure to maintain order. Despite last week's events, however, the Prime Minister says he is still reluctant to use military force to curb terrorism in Punjab...
...careers. He continued to write fiction (Dog Years, Local Anaesthetic, The Flounder), as well as plays and poetry, that enhanced his worldwide reputation. He also plunged energetically into politics, working on behalf of West Germany's Social Democratic Party, speaking out against the superpower arms race, and hectoring with particular fervor the Western democracies. Planners of literary conferences learned that one sure way to garner attention was to snare Grass as a participant. He could, at the very least, be counted on to insult his hosts and stir everyone up before he moved...