Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, Thatcher named a new 21-member Cabinet. Most were holdovers, but there were two surprises. Norman Tebbit, the Conservative Party chairman who had just led the Tories to victory, resigned as Minister Without Portfolio. Though no reason was given, he reportedly wanted to spend more time with his wife, who was badly injured during a 1984 bombing attack by the Irish Republican Army. Cecil Parkinson, who resigned in 1983 in the midst of a sex scandal (he had fathered his secretary's child), rejoined the Cabinet as Energy Secretary...
...meals in the residential dining halls with other students, that we have as much access to University facilities as others. But while walking a few blocks to supper is not so bad, knowing no one in the dining hall is no fun at all. Although most sophomores spend their time meeting new housemates, transfer students usually become friendly primarily with fellow transfers. It takes longer, perhaps only after becoming involved in an extracurricular activity, for transfer students to have a circle of non-transfer friends...
...foreign policy experts also say that the tremendous financial undertaking would never materialize in the present era. "In the immediate post-war period we were able to come forward with a major effort and spend 3 percent of our Gross National Product for the Marshall Plan. Today we can't get one half of one percent for such purposes," says Rusk...
...MacArthur announced that Harvard would set up a $30 million ethics endowment, two-thirds of which came from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman John S.R. Shad. Rather than solving the B-School's ethical dilemmas, the money only caused more difficulties as the School sought ways to spend...
...Business School has already decided to spend part of the money on a University-wide program to bring four ethics fellows from different disciplines to research and speak on ethical issues. One of the four fellows for next year, Massie said the Business School would take its time spending the $30 million. "They're building for the long run. They're not interested in making a big splash," He said...