Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of his colleagues are pleased that Boskin was selected, viewing his appointment as a sign that the Bush Administration will be more accessible to outside ideas than its predecessor was. Boskin certainly hopes that is the case: "I've always taken very seriously the research of all schools of < thought. I didn't start out presuming they were wrong, because I wasn't wed to one camp or another." That sort of thinking should be a boon to the Bush Administration as it grapples with deficits and other problems that so far have proved too big and intractable...
Hundreds of students sign up for pre-vacation plagiarism courses sponsored by Harvard Student Agencies. For a fee of $45, including drinks in the last session (with valid i.d.), students learn how to plagiarize more effectively without getting caught. Former head of McLean Hospital Shervert Frazier serves as special guest lecturer...
Harvard administrators sit down with Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers leaders to embark on contract negotiations. Suddenly, Harvard announces pay increases, a new network of child care facilities and fair job classifications for all support staff. The union negotiators eagerly sign the contract, before the Harvard officials get a chance to utter, "April Fools...
...State Department deports the editorial staff of Padan Aram, mistaking them for an offshoot of Islamic Jihad. The Undergraduate Council grants their petition for $500 for return airfare, and hails it as a sign of the council's new commitment to campus-wide publications...
Besides being brave, Nick is something of an ironist. This quality, if nothing else, is a sign of intelligence. Before taking up fire fighting, Nick was a cop falsely tainted by corruption. Now the very people who secretly profited by victimizing him -- the crooked, volcanic mayor (Rod Steiger) and the bland, bureaucratic police commissioner (Harvey Keitel) -- need him to lead the hunt for a maniacal killer...