Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then appointed the selfproclaimed guru of free-market economics in Argentina, Alvaro Alsogaray, to be his leading economic adviser. Ignoring the opposition of the telephone unions, Menem gave Alsogaray's daughter the task of privatizing the state-run telephone company that has for years been ridiculed by Argentines, who have a host of horror stories to tell about how tough it is to make routine local calls...
After that, Harvard and its newest, most highly publicized union will face the difficult task of translating the contract's legal jargon into the day-to-day language of the workplace. Says Manna, "Some of the administrative details haven't been worked out yet. We're not sure exactly how everything will work...
...think my generation came to cherish the freedom of inquiry," says Iriye, who at 54 is beginning his first year as a tenured Harvard history professor. "I think one task of a historian, and particularly a historian teaching undergraduates, is to instill in the minds of [students] that one should never believe uncritically what is given by people in authority...
...until he arrives in Cambridge this January, Royer will continue to play local politics. His next task: the Seattle annual budget, which is to be presented next week to the city council...
...word summarizes the challenge and the promise of the year at Harvard it was pluralism. Diversity in the houses, diversity in College admissions, diversity in the faculty, diversity in the curriculum, diversity was everywhere--in a form. The task of the community of the University became bringing order out of the seeming disorder. The task was not easy. Mistakes were...