Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems that there were lots of little changes and experiments with the system designed to improve efficiency. Harvard thrives on efficiency, after all. But everyone was notified about them slowly, on little signs around school before the end of last year, or flyers sent to our homes over the summer, or not notified at all. Who could know that all these little changes would add up to big headaches...
...William Garman, 51, contracted Lou Gehrig's disease in 1982 and within two years was paralyzed, unable to speak or write. Then, last summer, a group of Westinghouse engineers outfitted Garman with an infrared sensor that moves a computer screen's cursor in response to his blinking. For the first time since his illness struck, Garman has been able to communicate with family and friends. His first words, painstakingly spelled out one letter at a time...
...clear how many professors Dukakis would actually tap for his administration, but Allison, who announced his resignation from the Kennedy School over the summer, and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye have both been named as likely choices...
Giroux said many changes, unrelated to the current contract talks, took place during the summer. Both Superintendent Robert J. Peterkin and the assistant superintendent Dr. Barbara Marshall, took more prestigious jobs in the Milwaukee school system. In addition, the principal of one of the elementary schools accepted a job as head of Harvard's Principals program...
East Germany first competed in the Olympics under its own flag at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. The hammer-and-compass banner was hoisted in victory 66 times, countering the G.D.R.'s image as a walled outcast with the impression of an athletic marvel. Four years later, in the last Summer Games not boycotted by a major competitor, East Germany, with 17 million people, earned 40 gold medals; the U.S., with over 200 million, won 34. National medal counts and per capita ratios are, of course, hardly the stuff of Olympic ideals, nor should athletics be pursued for political...