Word: prospectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such ostentation seems out of keeping with the solemnity and surviving Brahmin spirit of the university, whose early masters forbade the setting of "bonfires and illuminations" or "making tumultuous or indecent noises." And some Harvard faces have gone crimson at the prospect. Historian Oscar Handlin was quoted as saying, "I would have liked it to be more scholarly and less show biz." The hoopla and hustle will include the licensed sale of memorabilia like goldplated watches to pull a few more dollars into Harvard's $3.5 billion endowment (already the biggest of any private U.S. university...
...panelists were enthusiastic about the prospect of building a particle accelerator even larger than the Fendi lab's. The new accelerator would have a circumference of 50 miles and would cost several billion dollars...
...good at Harvard as a chemistry student, and then stayed on to become the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Conant's election to the presidency by the Board of Overseers two years earlier had come as a suprise to most people, including the man himself. Initially unhappy at the prospect of having to abandon a promising scientific career, Conant settled down to work and launched several projects that shook Old Harvard to the core of its being...
After McCue made the announcement, the audience of about 200 listened to four leading public planning professors discuss the future of the city and the role of urban designers in determining the prospect...
...Washington some observers believe the heralded Iranian attack on Basra could turn out to be a false alarm. "Every year we hear the same thing -- now | comes the final offensive," says Thomas McNaugher, a Persian Gulf watcher at the Brookings Institution, "and every year it peters out." Nonetheless, the prospect, however faint, that Iran could begin to extend its control deeper into Iraq and then through the gulf is too serious to be ignored. Windows in Kuwait already rattle from Iranian artillery bombardments just 15 miles away. Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states are growing increasingly nervous. "Complacency...