Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep the approximately 150 Commencement and reunion functions running effectively, organizers must work nearly 24 hours a day, juggling countless behind-the-scene details...
...course, universities produce the educated students and the basic research that fuel the economy. Universities such as Harvard, however, can do much more. The activist university must start to enter the scene, venture out past the walls of the ivory tower and tackle the problems--such as illiteracy, a lack of competitiveness and faltering ethical standards--facing the real world. It must place such goals among its top priorities if it is to retain the public trust...
...article on the Jersey Devil ((AMERICAN SCENE, April 27)), an irreverent group of designer-builders, asserts that the American Institute of Architects has a policy against architects' both designing and building projects. To avoid this alleged prohibition, the firm has chosen not to become licensed. This is an inaccurate representation of both A.I.A. policy and the licensing process. First, the A.I.A. does not license architects; state boards do. The A.I.A.'s position on any subject could not affect the Jersey Devil's ability to become licensed. Second, the Jersey Devil partners are in error when they assert that the A.I.A...
...American Scene...
...Austrian observing the political scene in my country from abroad, I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Justice for taking steps against President Waldheim. He has lied about his involvement in the German army during World War II and has been evasive in answering his accusers. Waldheim does not deserve to be President...