Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophomopre class, but Bakanowsky says the department has no plans for expansion. Instead, Bakanowsky, who teaches the two Core Curriculum courses offered by the department and believes that "the arts belong to everyone, not a select few," says that the department goes out of its way to reach out to non-concentrators. Consequently, some 1300 of the 1600 annual spots in the department's courses are filled by non-concentrators...
...Baby Boomers reach the age of responsibility not only for their families but for the country, their leaders are disconcertingly difficult to identify. The heroes of their youth, Kennedy and King, are gone, and their charisma and idealism sometimes seem to have died with them. When the Princeton class of '69 was asked ten years later whom they most admired, the leading choice was "Nobody." To be sure, the generation has produced a few able young politicians like Senator Gore, but he is still very much a junior Senator in a minority party, hardly a national figure. The presidential aspirants...
...situation in the houses is almost as bad. Only Leverett, Quincy, and Cabot are even partially accessible. In order to reach the Quincy dining room, disabled students must take a freight elevator in the kitchen. Leverett Towers have elevators but these only go to the even floors. "I have to choose my friends on the even floors only," quipped Wallace, a Leverett resident. "Other people can visit their friends...
Experts expect that the housing spurt will continue at least through the end of 1986. The National Association of Realtors predicts that new-home sales will reach 735,000 this year, up from 688,000 in 1985. But that level depends largely on interest rates remaining close to their current level. Many consumers fear that these rates are too good to last. Says George Pierce, a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker in Oak Brook, Ill.: "People are saying, 'I may never see this again. Now is the time to make my move...
...reputed military chief of the Basque terror group ETA, Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, alias Txomin, is suspected of masterminding dozens of killings in Spain. ETA most recently took responsibility for a bomb attack two weeks ago that killed five policemen. Iturbe, 42, has been kept out of reach of the Spanish since he fled to France in 1968. In 1982 French authorities declared him a political refugee...