Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third--Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci--is a fierce Independent who is often the council's swing vote. Although CCA members have made up a minority on the council, cooperation with the mayor on rent control and affordable housing issues has allowed them to push through their program in several areas. Vellucci's departure could threaten this balance...
Hafferty begins his fifth year at the helm of the water polo program with the momentum of a steadily-improving record and only two players (Joe Kaufman and goalie Greg Beber) lost to graduation, but also with the frustration of the Crimson's inability to break into the upper ranks of the nation's squads. The 1988 team finished 19-8, including a second place finish at the New England Championships, but in the Easterns, the Crimson stumbled to a seventh place finish...
...first time in at least 40 years, a student from the Soviet Union has entered Harvard's regular undergraduate program. Natalya Tsarkova, a 19-year-old native of Riga, USSR, was accepted to Harvard last spring and arrived here in August...
...raids, arrests and counterstrikes that followed presented the spectacle of a country fighting for its life against criminal combines financed by America's drug habit. The violence spurred the Administration to jump-start its antidrug program, scheduled to be unveiled next week in George Bush's first major TV address to the nation. From his vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., the President announced a $65 million package of emergency military aid to Colombia, more than 2 1/2 times the $25 million the nation had been scheduled to receive. At the same time, the State Department warned that "Americans traveling...
Though the U.S. has a big stake in the battle in Colombia, it cannot do much besides send materiel and cheer for Barco. Washington's antidrug policy is moving away from interdiction of supply to cutting down demand at home. Bush's program will propose shifting funds to expanded drug-education and -treatment programs, and stiffer penalties for casual users. Such an emphasis on curtailing the U.S. appetite for cocaine and other drugs is fine by the Colombians. As President Barco told TIME, "Every time a North American youngster pays for his vice in the streets of New York, Miami...