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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always been so rosy. Following a period of expansion in the late sixties. HSA 'encountered rocky times which kept it in the red for four years until '1974. At that point, the University agreed to bail out the student corporation by loaning it $60.000 over a two year span--a loan which has since been paid back in full...
...SALVADOR doesn't sell newspapers like it used to. A civil war still rages there, but the bulk of mainstream media editorials and news stories in the last few months have shifted their focus to other wars, other crises. Perhaps Americans have a limited attention span; perhaps the nightly television news reports about the war started to look like re-runs. In any case, two new documentaries about the turmoil--and the first such films actually made by Salvadorans--will be shown in Cambridge this weekend, and they provide a view of the conflict which it is hard to imagine...
Wacker added that the figures cited in the grievance were a "statistical aberration" because they were taken over too short a time span. He added that BWH investigators are now compiling statistics on deliveries over a full year...
...second such geothermal facility in the U.S. Estimates of the island's geothermal potential range up to 3,000 megawatts, nearly twice the whole state's present electric-power consumption. The further development of new geothermal sources would be spurred if engineers could design a cable to span the 26-mile, 7,000-ft.-deep Alenuihaha Channel between Hawaii and the other islands to permit the export of electricity...
...prize-winning scholar and professor of Government here for nearly a decade, Verba assumed the position of associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education last year. The 50-year-old man of unimposing girth and height became one of the most important occupants of University Hall in the span of one year, initiating several substantive curriculum changes...