Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This spring 12 freshmen declared a concentration that no other student before them had. The intrepid freshmen signed up to test drive the Women's Studies program four months after the concentration was voted into existence. The product of eight years of lobbying and planning, the concentration received only one dissent--from Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield--as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approved its first new concentration in three years...
...product of his more restrained academic tastes, he said, was that they required less money...
Unfortunately, Leland is trapped in the airy territory of hardback fiction, where tastes are as refined as sales are poor. If he's lucky, some canny product get the film rights and turn it into a mini-series which those with brain cells can actually watch. Or perhaps he can persuade Avon books to buy it up, put on a slightly racy cover hinting of decadent Southern sensuality and drag a few suburban housewives into the realm of real literature. Otherwise, Mrs. Randall will remain a pleasure reserved only for those in the know...
...SHOULD NO LONGER be necessary to deny that the Washington government of the past four years bears a Cambridge trademark. In spite of the American Mercury's description of Mr. Roosevelt as a "typical product of his training," the exact opposite seems to be true to those familiar with its ideals and teachings. Harvard's historical battle, from Dunster and Leverett to Lowell and Conant, has been for a free university in a free commonwealth...
Want "a cash reserve for anything you want, whenever you want it," as New York's Dime Savings Bank promises? Or "a real bargain," courtesy of California First? Those are the kinds of advertising claims that are wafting these days around banking's hottest product, the home-equity loan. A boomlet of sorts is under way as customers respond with enthusiasm to this form of consumer debt, while lenders vie frantically for customers and market share. But amid the rush, cautionary voices are warning about the dangers of the popular loans, and the misleading nature of some of the hype...