Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction project will be finished in September, including two new dining halls for Cabot and North Houses which will share a kitchen, says Assistant Dean for Physical Resources Philip A. Parsons. "Things look all right at this point, although nobody has ever done this much construction in a summer at Harvard," he says, adding that the work will probably cost slightly more than projected...
...University has appointed a chairman, Oxford scholar Olwen Hufton--to whom they offered tenure last summer--and a head tutor, Soyna Michel. Five of the 12 students in the program are full concentrators and the other seven are joint majors. According to administrators, the concentration is negotiating for a new home...
...Neill's experience on that summer day 60 years ago laid the foundations for his political career, which has raised both him and his community to prominence. Most recently, the staunchly liberal Democrat has won praise and admiration for leading the opposition to the Reagan domestic policy revolution of tax and social program cuts...
...began last October. Until that month, President Ronald Reagan had been flying high. After playing upon that summer's drug hysteria the way a Horowitz plays upon a Steinway--only to fail to come through with the money or resources to actually do something about substance abuse--the President reaped the benefits of a popular tax reform bill with which he had little to do and, in fact, the concept of which he long had opposed. Then, during the first week of October, the cargo plane of one Eugene Hasenfus, an American mercenary, was shot down inside Nicaragua trying...
Then it was revealed that over the summer the Administration devised and acted upon a secret plan to deceive the American media--by planting an apocryphal story in The Wall Street Journal--so as to convince Libyan military officers that an American invasion of their country was imminent and incite them to depose Col. Khadaffy. A laudable aspiration, perhaps, but one which the Administration sought to achieve through manipulative means wholly in contradiction with fundamental American values about honesty and forthrightness in government. Making matters more repulsive was a report a few weeks later which showed that the Administration doctored...