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Word: requesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard can still rise above the suspicion which has already prompted a Congressional request for an investigation by the Attorney-General of the KTA grant to Harvard--an unenviable first for the University. But it cannot do so if it permits Modern Korean to be taught at Harvard as an economic-sociological caricature nor by leaving the field chiefly to those who praise Park. Only by moving with all dispatch to redress a balance grievously disturbed and quieting suspicions still troubling the Korean field at Harvard--and elsewhere--can the University exorcise the monsters which Seoul's reasoned dreams...

Author: By Gregory Henderson, | Title: Harvard's Korean Grant: Dreams of Reason and Spectres | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

This report is available upon request. I urge any concerned citizen to obtain a copy by writing to his Congressman, and read what Cranston states: "report which details the implications of U.S. policy in Iran with alarming insight...

Author: By David B. Mccosker, | Title: Iran-Another Vietnam? | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...standards. What kind of wage-price policy does that leave? Okun suggests a series of "prayer meetings" at which Administration officials will urge business and labor leaders in general terms to make sacrifices for the sake of noninflationary growth. He also forecasts a highly informal "prenotification" standard−a request that businessmen and labor leaders inform the new President privately of planned wage and price hikes and discuss their justification in advance. Pechman, director of economic studies at Brookings, urges that Carter appoint a new chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, who would vigorously denounce excessive wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTLOOK/TIME BOARD OF ECONOMISTS: Carter's Turn to Pep Up Growth | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Failed Fiat. The automen are relieved that they will not have to spend the $600 million that would have been necessary to equip all 1978-model cars with air bags. But they are none too happy about Coleman's request that they put up $48 million of their own money to conduct a demonstration project over the next two years-which they regard as an offer they cannot refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Air Bags: Will They Ever Sell? | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Oldsmith falls hard for Flynn's daughter Rosa (Barbara Parkins), who nurses him through a bout of malaria. Rosa tells her father she is pregnant at about the same time that Oldsmith makes a formal request for her hand in marriage. "What!" splutters the indignant father. "You ask for her hand when you've had everything else!" Of course there is a terrible fight, followed, in rough sequence, by a wedding, the birth of a daughter and the start of the first World War, which finds Flynn and his new family involved in fresh adventures, none more credible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hecksapoppin | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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