Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hadn't already promised the job to Jimmy Baker (the guy who showed me how to kick a little ass last week) I would have had you on my short list for secretary of state. Your steadfast refusal to divest Harvard's holdings from companies doing business in South Africa shows you understand the basic idea of foreign policy--the profit motive is far more important than morality. We can't let the concerns of thousands, even millions, of people effect our policy toward their nation. That would be just plain silly...
...short, when Harvard opened its doors to women, the battle was only half over. Many sections and activities here prize qualities that have been discouraged in women--agressiveness, assertiveness, courage, independence...
...proposition first gained exposure--and met strong opposition--last fall, when it failed to snag a place on the 1987 ballot because the realtor and his allies fell just short of collecting the 3500 necessary petition signatures...
...institutions no longer invest. Instead they speculate -- in every type of financial vehicle from options to junk bonds, from real estate to foreign exchange. They are active players in the takeover game, encouraging corporations either to sell out or to engage in highly leveraged restructurings essentially aimed at maximizing short-term trading profits. But while the managers of institutional funds engage in this speculation, the money is not theirs. They are risking the assets of retirees, depositors and policyholders. Since many of these institutions carry the explicit or implicit guarantee of the states or the Federal Government, they are also...
...policy of glasnost. A congress of the nationalist organization, Estonia's Popular Front in Support of Perestroika, called for more regional autonomy, political democratization, economic freedom, a new currency and adoption of Estonian as the sole national language. But in its push for political changes, the Front stopped short of demands for secession...