Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people instrumental in building the sailing center is Walter Evert, who has been with the club for more than 15 years. Now in semi-retirement, he remembers his time as director of sailing...
...department now has one and a half tenured professors--Southern and Ewart Guinier '33, who is semi-retired. The lack of senior faculty in Afro-Am drew harsh criticism last spring, as students held a series of demonstrations charging Harvard--and Rosovsky in particular--with failing to search aggressively for tenured faculty, depriving the department of funding and planning to demote it to an interdisciplinary committee...
...quarter of the men and about a third of the women will have visited the MHS. ("Women," Walters explains, "are more sensitive to interpersonal issues and more willing to ask for help.") While a lot of students have the notion that most MHS patients are counselled on a semi permanent basis, Walters says the majority of the cases his office handles are short-term and 'crisis"-oriented. The average student, Walters notes, "may see us in his junior year for three or four visits and then again briefly in his senior year...
...befall India. In the midafternoon of a torrentially rainy Saturday, the 197-ft.-high earthen Machhu dam in western India's Gujarat state suddenly burst open. The waters behind it boiled six miles down a river in the state's Saurashtra district and crashed into Morvi, a semi-industrial town of 75,000, known as "the Paris of Saurashtra" because of its many green parks and broad avenues. Mud houses were entirely swept away, brick and concrete buildings were smashed, and just about everything else was buried under a layer of ooze almost 4 ft. thick. Rescue workers...
...articles that span his career from a relatively straight South American reporter for the National Observer in the early 60's through the protogonzoid transition stage of the late 60's to Rolling Stone national affairs correspondent in the disgustingly un-freaked-out 70's, where Thompson's semi-paranoid, disoriented, "vulgar," terminal brilliance reminds the stultified that there is an unpleasant side of life, whether they like...