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Word: responded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winners were chosen on the basis of content and delivery, said competition coordinator Richard Marius, who is also director of expository writing. "We wanted something fitting to Commencement, and something we felt that students would respond to," he said...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Commencement Day Orators Chosen | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

...problem with the lottery is information: freshmen are given too little of it to make an informed choice. The plan to give freshmen their numbers in advance was a worthy effort to reduce this difficulty but, like many half-measures, it only made things worse. Harvard should respond by increasing the amount of information available still further, rather than going back to the old, and almost equally unsatisfactory, system of previous years...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Freshman Stats 101 | 4/24/1986 | See Source »

...egregious attempt to manipulate the election through an official Harvard mailing warrants an apology to all alumni. In addition, the University should give the three divestment candidates an opportunity to respond to Bok's propoganda by footing the bill for a mailing to all 190,000 alumni. Finally, to assure the community that the election will be conducted fairly, Harvard officials should invite outside observers more acquainted with democratic processes to monitor the collection and counting of ballots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Sleaze | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...resist the opportunity to take a swipe at George Bush's hypocrisy. In the process, you buy into the same free-market fictions which helped wreck the Rust Belt. I hope that in the future you can look beyond petty regional rivalries and corrupt conservative formulas to see and respond to the real human costs of economic change. Kim Ladin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Regional Rivalry | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could be identified. Why had the U.S. once again targeted Gaddafi? Of all the evils and perils in the world, there is none that galls Reagan more than terrorism. Of all the anti-American thugs who hang out in the back alleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting Gaddafi | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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