Word: system
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Yale has had long practice in saying no to large sums of money. 1897 graduate Edward S. Harkness offered Yale money to establish a House system. Guess what Yale said...
Harkness instead donated money to Harvard. Yale later backtracked, and Harkness helped establish Yale's current residential college system...
...current system is] both confusing and potentially helpful. We think the system needs to be more transparent to students," Summergrad said. "We think it's important that there not be only one portal for care...
...European and Arab allies over bombing - and the resultant removal of United Nations weapons monitors - may have been correct. So with the U.N. Security Council meeting Friday or Saturday to adopt a resolution easing some sanctions against Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's accepting a new monitoring system, Defense Secretary William Cohen has been drumming up domestic support for a shift by insisting that the key to stopping Saddam Hussein from building weapons of mass destruction is to have monitors on the ground in Iraq - exactly the argument used by the European allies against last December's bombing...
...hoped to bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age and then forget about it," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But it's obvious now that you can't forget about Iraq, and it's hard to see what the bombing accomplished except to end the monitoring system. Now the U.S. appears to have come around to the European approach, emphasizing the need to have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both...