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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Including these initiatives in the Higher Education Act will reflect the fact that colleges are partners with their communities and can strengthen each other. At a conference I convened in Boston in January for Massachusetts college presidents to press the concept of university-community partnerships, the response was impressive. It is clear that colleges, students and communities will all benefit from closer ties...

Author: By Edward M. Kennedy, | Title: Connecting Communities | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...available--from simple, low-cost projects to multi-year, grant-funded initiatives. It's not a "one-size-fits-all" approach. Many partnerships will be natural outgrowths of various university missions. Encouraging students to be more involved in their communities can build active and involved electorates that will strengthen democracy at every level...

Author: By Edward M. Kennedy, | Title: Connecting Communities | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Arista and magazines such as McCall's. The company plans to raise not only its U.S. profile but its revenue too, from a third of its bottom line to 40%. "The U.S. is a very big market," says Middelhoff. "Our position is O.K., but our properties must strengthen our position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book On Bertelsmann | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...parched Watergate wasteland of Washington, the praise and the cheers of multitudes were welcome indeed, particularly since each stop, each spectacle, was beamed in living color back to [U.S.] living rooms...[H]ome was never like this, and the President's aides were convinced that the accolades abroad would strengthen Nixon's hand in his battle to stave off impeachment. The hegira to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel and Jordan had, of course, far broader purposes. It constituted not only what some Nixon critics scorned as "impeachment diplomacy" but also sound foreign policy. His trip, said Nixon, was "another journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...like black. The darkness is creeping in, leaving me squinting inches from the page. Extensive searches of the halogen bulbs and considerations of the (negligible) overhead brightness have come up with nothing. I am beginning to worry that I too will see my optometrist next week and he will strengthen my prescription...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Coming Out of the Dark | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

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