Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the passing of Bowie's grand scheme for the Fellows program, the Center changed its complexion: growing academic functions have replaced earlier service ambitions. In both the Center and its semi-autonomous branch, the Development Advisory Service (DAS), there has been a proliferation of research projects and publications...
...then re-organized it into a semi-independent part of the Center for International Affairs. Harvard appoints the permanent staff here, and contracts are negotiated through the Center. But a separate University committee, chaired by Mason, meets five or six times a year to set DAS policy...
...should merely want to stand by yourself without, participating, your best bet is to head for the empty five-foot semi-circle in front of one of the loud-speakers
...semi-rural Florida, east of Tampa, large amounts of fluorides emitted from phosphate plants have rained down on nearby citrus groves, ranches and gladiolus farms. Orange and lemon trees that absorbed the fluorides produced smaller yields, and gladioli turned brown and died. A national air-pollution symposium reported that cattle grazing on grass that was contaminated with the fluorides developed uneven teeth that hindered chewing and joints so swollen that many of the animals could not stand. Fluorides have also etched windowpanes, giving them the frosted appearance of a light bulb...
Harvard is a university, but from another point of view, it can only be understood as a kind of federation of semi-autonomous institutions, all parts of which are ultimately responsible to the President and the Governing Boards. There are ten major units of instruction and research--such as the Law School, the Medical School, the Business School, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (serving both the College and Graduate School)--each with its own independent departments and interests; and there are various other sime-independent units, many of considerable size, in the museums, forests, and other kinds...