Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two types of people in the world: those who believe in God, and those who would like to prove that he doesn't exist. Maybe the Greek word hubris describes our desire to tame disasters, or even to categorize them...
...Will Love and Marriage (and his mother-in-law) KO Mike Tyson?" reads the cover of SI's June 13 issue. Inside, the adjective used to describe Givens and her mother is a tame "willful." Check the italics and parentheses for SI's real message. It isn't hard to miss...
This is not to support heavy-handed anti-union campaigns. Far from it. But from the standpoint of a powerful employer who did not want this union around, Harvard ran a tame campaign...
What is to be done? I've two pieces of advice, the first tame, the second rather radical. First, continue the pressure on the administration; if it produces even one new minority hiring, that will be a victory. Second, if its role models that you're after, break out of your ethnic shell a bit and look to the white faculty along with those few who are not. That's a big part of what Harvard is about. Christopher H. Foreman '74 University of Maryland
Last week the Managua regime unveiled a desperate strategy to tame Nicaragua's hyperinflated economy. The government replaced the existing currency, the cordoba, which was officially valued at 20,000 to the U.S. dollar, with a new cordoba pegged at ten to the dollar. The monetary shuffle, coupled with drastic price increases, left many of the country's 3.3 million citizens baffled and worried about their purchasing power. A gallon of gas that used to cost the equivalent of 16 cents, for example, now costs $1.50. Explaining the decision to change the currency last week, Economist Mario Arana declared, "Things...