Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ferguson says his committee will certainly seek some form of student input, but adds he has not determined the best way to incorporate student opinion. He notes that because students have played a larger role in Afro-Am decision making in the past than most other Harvard students, their expectations are very high. "Disappointing expectations can be even more damaging than simply not making the right moves," he notes. But Robinson says, "Students don't want to make decisions--they just want input...
Which brings us to, or leaves us with, Kevin "I-built-Quincy-Market" White. White, a benevolent-looking, white-haired man who will turn 50 the day of the preliminary election, has commanded the troops in City Hall for the past 12 years. Is White a glutton for punishment? The mayor, his aides whisper in your ear, has led the city through the worst of times (i.e. the civil war to desegrate the city's schools) and now wants to guide his city into the 1980's. White is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in office and, if enough people...
...number of applicants to the GSAS also declined from 4450 last year to 4000 this year, Kraus said. Male applicants outnumbered females two-to-one, Kraus said, but added that the number of women applicants has been rising steadily for the past few years...
...nation's number three auto maker announced last week that its losses would surpass even the figure of $600 to $700 million it had announced earlier, putting Chrysler in striking distance of a new record for the largest loss in corporate history. Plagued with incompetent managers for the past decade, Chrysler is now close to defaulting on its loans, no small problem--the tenth largest corporate mogul in America is over half a billion dollars in debt. And its repeated boostings of its loss estimates have not reassured the lending institutions, which seem to have written Chrysler...
...finest degree. Few financial observers predicted that Chrysler would actually have to liquidate all its operations simultaneously. Assuming that it did continue to decline, Chrysler would more likely continue to lose its share of the market to GM, albeit at a faster rate than it has for the past decade...