Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Classics department, computers are moving Aristotle into the space age by programs such as creating databanks to allow quick availability of ancient language vocabulary and sources...
...feel out what has been brewing in the London markets and what they mean for Harvard's money. Later, with newsletters and The Wall Street Journal read, the full investment staff--traders, portfolio managers, fixed-income managers and researchers--meet at 9:30 for a half-hour of quick reports...
With rare exceptions, there was also no hope for discussion with the Harvard Faculty. Most of those who taught at Harvard had other cares, were engaged in the treaty business of college academics. Having been called to Harvard in an earlier age, by quick circumstance, after a decade or more of painstaking specialization, they were even less prepared for the challenge of the time than were we. They were not ignorant professors, but they were unable to demonstrate how a life might be dedicated both to books and action, learning and justice. The nation's best scholars seemed to have...
...allowing more Women's Studies concentrators. The drive has been going on for a long time, but it has been conducted with little help from within the administration. "With something like women's studies, you need someone to take leadership, and Verba did not," Davila notes, but is quick to add that "there is only so much...
...software publisher when someone mentioned Flight Simulator II, a program that puts Walter Mitty pilots into the cockpit of a single-engine airplane. An amateur aviator who flies a small jet out of his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000 feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee Archer...