Word: reporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to a report released last month that details the University's expenditures during this period, Harvard's expenditures under non-federally sponsored projects from June, 1986 to June, 1987 totalled $59.27 million. This figure represents an increase of 11 percent over the $53.36 million Harvard spent during the previous fiscal year...
Some members of the class of '88 have shifted their sights from Wall Street to a wide variety of nonbusiness fields, from law to social work. Most noticeable is the rise in the number of students seeking teaching careers. Many of the nation's graduate education schools report they are receiving at least 40% more applications this year than last. At Brown University, 250 students showed up for a one-man show on the life of a teacher, and career forums on counseling drew twice as many future graduates as last year...
...reaction to the pamphlet, which is called Understanding AIDS and is also published in Spanish, has been largely positive. Some groups are sure to be offended by its blunt explicitness and its hearty endorsement of condoms. Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer of California calls portions of the report "irresponsible and unscientific." Most health officials, however, have praised the effort. At least no one who bothers to read the booklet can any longer plead ignorance about one of the nation's biggest health problems...
Little wonder that the Soviet press, which has been allowed to report politically sensitive news with increasing candor, was slow to discover the Polish unrest and even then used the pre-glasnost device of pinning it on "Western anti-Polish centers." For its part, the Reagan Administration deplored the Warsaw government's use of violence. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that the unrest in Poland could be a "point for discussion" at the upcoming Moscow summit but that he did not expect it to cause "significant damage...
...after the storming of Nowa Huta, riot police and militia began cordoning off the shipyard in Gdansk, which had been occupied by as many as 3,000 striking workers for the previous three days. The plant management broadcast an announcement warning nonstriking employees, some of whom had continued to report to work, to remain at home until further notice. As the morning wore on, crowds of curious onlookers gathered behind police lines at the main shipyard gate, near the steel monument of three crosses erected by Solidarity in memory of workers killed in antigovernment protests there in 1970. Inside, strikers...