Word: severance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...documentary, which took 15 months and about $275,000 to prepare, was primarily the work of two people: Producer-Director-Writer George Crile, who also conducted several on-camera interviews, and Consultant Sam Adams, a former CIA analyst who was paid $25,000 to research and help shape the piece, yet who also appeared on air as a principal witness for the conspiracy theory. Crile and Adams had teamed to publish a story in Harper's magazine in 1975 along similar lines. Their CBS documentary, as Sauter's memorandum in effect conceded, let every "judgment call" go against...
...repair efforts underway this summer are the most extensive in Harvard history. The three major projects--renovations of Harvard Stadium, two Houses and Sever Hall--signal the end of a recent policy of deferred maintenance which had forced the University to forego all but the most dire repair jobs...
...least glamorous and least pressure-packed work is at Sever, the project which will actually affect students the most. A year from now, the widely used classroom building will sport entirely new and modernized rooms within its renowned 100-year-old H H Richardson exterior. The cost $6 million...
Despite famous outer architecture. Sever has for generations been criticized for its banging steam pipes and poor acoustics. Those complaints should decrease when the building opens for business again in 1983-84, according to planners. It remains unclear what sort of complaints will arise when students discover that some Tuesday-Thursday classes will begin at 8:30 a.m. this year to compensate for the temporary loss of the Sever space...
...Syrian jet fighters clashed in the skies over Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The Israeli aircraft destroyed all of the SA-6 ground-to-air missiles that Israel had repeatedly threatened to obliterate. Israeli ground forces rolled to within two miles of the vital Damascus-to-Beirut highway, threatening to sever Syria's supply lifeline to its estimated 30,000 troops in the Bekaa Valley and in Beirut...