Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fell short of my expectations [on social events]. I clearly point to that as my biggest failure," said Mandery...
Attempts to secure a spring concert were equally unsuccessful. In April, the council in emergencey session voted down a planned Chuck Berry concert, which would have cost $25,000. The vote, bolstered by representatives who said the show would be too expensive and too short, came after a non-council representative negotiationg on behalf of the council had verbally agreed to a late April concert with Berry's agent. It was unclear whether the council action would hurt Harvard's reputation among music agents and the council's chances of signing acts in the future...
...Martin stresses that the departments try to protect professors from temporary expansion by one member of the department. "We are wary of projects that call for a tremendous amount of activity and large number of research associates over a relatively short period of time," he says. "We try to avoid sudden glitches...
Arias confronted Ortega head on, asking him if he was willing to make concessions, says Peter Hakim, staff director of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Inter-American Dialogue. If not, then it would be better for the leaders to go right to dinner and cut the meeting short, Arias said, according to Hakim...
While the 1988 squad fell just short of recapturing the Eastern title, a lot of that bitter feeling was erased by the strong performance of Bird and his teammates. Not only did the Crimson win more that individual titles than the Tigers, but it also outscored Princeton in the 16 swimming events...