Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brisk rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who were faster to draw up a concise list of demands, have been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children...
...fact, Harvard says it makes a special effort to consider applications from Cambridge high school students, with 40 percent of last year's applicants from Rindge gaining admission. Harvard's overall acceptance rate was just 20 percent, says Dwight D. Miller, a senior admissions officer who oversees Cambridge-area applications...
...annual report last year, Bok cited theschool for its achievements, delineating "what wehave achieved and what must still be done to builda first-rate professional school for publicservice...
...mission over the past 50 years has been to promote democracy abroad. Well, the risk of expansionary communism has been eliminated, and it is time to properly educate the students of America. Without educating our students, the United States runs the risk of turning into a second- or third-rate nation...
...Zolotas, who is not a member of any party, the top priority is to repair the creaking economy, which is burdened by a large public debt and a 14% inflation rate -- three times that of the European Community. Several remedial measures have already been announced, including a 5% income tax hike and a 1% reduction in public spending...