Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as if it's just the conservatives, or the liberals, or the works, or the jocks who are selfish. It's almost everyone. Even those who volunteer for public service are as vain and self-centered as the rest. Their "helping other people" gets in the way with their dealing with you as a real person...
...Council, after a rash of attacks on undergraduates in Harvard Yard and a rape in the Science Center, called for increased security measures campus-wide. As a result, the Yard has been brightened at night with improved lighting, the Science Center has upgraded its security measures, classes in self-defense have been held for students, and whistles have been made available to all students...
...messenger for the Banque de France, Delors is very much a self- made man. After graduating from high school, he worked for his father's employer by day and acquired degrees in law and economics at night. Politically, he has operated both sides of the fence. From 1969 to 1972 he worked as an adviser to Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and from 1981 to 1984 he served as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand's Economy and Finance Minister. When in Paris, Delors lives with wife Marie in a five-room apartment near the Gare de Lyons. They have...
SOMETIMES, responsibility seems to become too much to ask. Self-reliance indeed was the reason for the milestone summit of collegiate minorities at Harvard in February. Dubbed the Intercollegiate Conference, more than 1000 students from schools throughout New England and the Ivy League congregated in Cambridge to build coalitions between Black, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American communities...
This apathy, this self-delusion or self-denial formed the grounds for masters and the College dean to propose in November the greatest change in residential housing assignment since the early 1970s. Alarmed by stereotypes of the houses and concerned that the houses no longer represented the educational microcosm of the University's diversity, officials moved to introduce partially random assignment of rising sophomores...