Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems determined to retain the iron cage of the Core program despite students inside clamoring to get out, wanting to learn more than the Core teaches them. It seems ironic to us that the Faculty's decisions are rooted not in a pedagogic desire to inculcate students with a solid liberal arts education but rather in a perverse need to maintain a failed system for the sake of the system itself. Beside increasing student choice, departmental bypasses will allow increased learning. The Faculty should be more concerned with student education and less concerned with bureaucracy...
...reborn. These are 49 years after 1,878 when there was nowhere for the Jews of the world to go. These are 49 years which came only three years after the fires of the crematoria were extinguished for good. These are 49 years of a constant struggle to retain independence and forty nine years of hardship...
Wall Street responded with enthusiasm to the prospect of an end to the uncertainties associated with tobacco stocks. But any talk of a final settlement appeared wildly premature. For one thing, antismoking forces in the Administration and Congress stress that the Food and Drug Administration must retain the power to regulate tobacco as a drug, as well as limit the nicotine content of cigarettes--conditions that the industry has resisted. And some lawyers were dismissive of the $300 billion as not nearly enough compensation...
...political. It is the first step toward a "Greater China," so to speak, a revival of a brand of Chinese nationalism. "Hong Kong now, Taiwan next" is the idea, as many Chinese officials would put in explicit terms. But the matter at hand is whether Hong Kong can retain its strong position in the world in the midst of the identity shuffling it will endure in years to come...
Radcliffe remains independent of Harvard, both financially and organizationally; women students are members of both Harvard and Radcliffe. However, all the athletic teams are financially and organizationally part of Harvard. A few teams have chosen to retain the Radcliffe name and colors, but there is no other difference between them and the other women's teams--both the Harvard women's basketball team and the Radcliffe crew are coached by Harvard coaches, and their operating budgets are paid entirely from Harvard sources...