Word: portion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the dollar. Anyway, the Saudis are stuck with the buck; by now they could get out of dollars only at ruinous cost to themselves. There just are not enough marks, yen or Swiss francs available for them to buy with their dollars. Long before they converted any large portion, their sales would have driven the value of their remaining dollars down so much as to make their own reserves worth much less...
...fact that we were listening, after all, to a long summary of a report we'd already been given to read and that the room was exceedingly crowded, hot, and smoky, and what seems to me remarkable is that the vast majority remained where they were for the major portion of the proceedings. Some may have nodded from time to time, but they were not unaccompanied by student representatives...
...portion of the RUS budget designated for organizational loans and grants totals $5250. The group alotted $4430 of the total to seven different activities. The money left over will be used to support new groups which may require funding later in the year, Heather Pavlik '80, secretary of RUS, said last night...
Donald suggests one solution, admittedly an idealistic proposal. Why not spend a portion of the University endowment to hire many more junior faculty, with no guarantee of tenure, to staff an increased number of seminars and small courses? Because Donald favors the star system of tenure, he does advocate offering tenure to many of these junior faculty but rather urges the intellectual and social integration of the assistant professor in to the life of the Harvard community. "Junior faculty ought to be treated very well and made socially and intellectually a part of the community. The prestige of Harvard will...
Hunt praised the larger, lesser-known group of women who compromise the "other" portion of the roster for providing much of the enthusiasm and positive attitude that characterized this year's squad...