Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting we had with Dean Spence and President Bok at the end of the spring term, they made known their agreement with the basic ideas of the report and their decision to follow our suggestion and form a Senior Faculty Committee to study this issue. The Committee would come up with specific recommendations which would then be considered by the Faculty in full...
...skin. The most successful machines have a built-in emotional component, something that connects the tools in the computer with the whims of its user. Perhaps no one understands this better than Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and the man who made the personal computer a household term. In the three years since he was forced out of Apple, the dreamer behind the Apple II and the Macintosh has been trying to do it again -- to create out of silicon his vision of what it is that makes people feel a bond with their machines...
...older students find themselves juggling children, term papers and jobs, of course. Many -- mostly the nation's growing population of retirees -- seek out campuses for old-fashioned intellectual fulfillment. "Ever since I got out of college, I wanted to go back," says retired lawyer Robert Friedman, 73, who is one of 400 students enrolled in Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement, a program of courses specially created for and taught ! by retirees on the Cambridge campus. Eckerd College, strategically located in St. Petersburg, has even opened a 133-unit senior citizen condominium on its campus, complete with 60 nursing...
...MEXICO New Mexico Jeff Bingaman, a first-term Democrat, should win handily...
...these are decidedly long-term investments. For the moment, oil prices seem capable of deep downward swings. Indonesia's Subroto, the OPEC secretary- general, has warned that prices could fall as low as $5 per bbl. if Saudi Arabia and the other overproducers were to keep flooding the market. If such predictions fail to spur the group toward cooperation over the next few weeks, OPEC may be setting the stage for the oil-price collapse...