Word: tended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...services appear external, no matter how important and longstanding they may be in their own right. What does seem central is those activities associated with what most undergraduates too all around them--Harvard--which still curries with it the stamp of maleness. As it result, many women tend to just subtly excluded when involved in activities, especially social ones, which center only on other women...
...mistaken perception has grown up that the two aims are mutually exclusive. By centering so predominantly upon feminist issues. RUS and Radcliffe programs in general have attained a reputation for being too radical--an image reinforced by the fact that students strongly concerned with women's issues tend to need and use Radcliffe more often than do women pursuing other interests. Coupled with the general Harvard-induced apprehension of exclusively female activities, this image often serves as an excuse for less politically active women to pay attention to Radcliffe and RUS at all. Broadening that image would eliminate the excuse...
There were other constituencies to tend to as well. At the British Home in Sierra Madre, a retirement camp for expatriates, the Queen tramped from stucco bungalow to bungalow, pleasing the 38 residents almost unbearably. The oldest, Sybil Jones-Bateman, 97, gave Her Majesty a homemade tea cozy and a collectively sewn quilt for the infant Prince William...
Gardner knows full well what he is getting into. Says Michael Heyman, chancellor of the university's Berkeley campus: "I tend to think of this as someone coming back into the family." In all, Gardner has spent a dozen years in the California system, first as a student earning his M.A. in political science and doctorate in higher education at Berkeley, then as a skilled, tactful administrator. As Santa Barbara's vice chancellor during the riot-torn late '60s and early '70s, he worked effectively as liaison between the university administration, the Governor, the students...
entails enormous risks for the Soviet Union which must be considered by future Soviet leaders. To Soviets have learned that the same technology they bring in to strengthen their military forces may also tend to subvert if not debilitate the moral resoluteness of the population. Increased and even continued contact with the West will increase the country's exposure to uncontrollable and corrupting influences...