Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council meetings, God forbid. Sunday night, at the council's most important meeting of the term, the council was forced to conduct not one, but two quorum calls. The first time, less than half of the council was present, so the council called a recess, and a handful of council members scurried frantically to the freshman dorms and to the telephones to try to round up enough of your exhausted representatives so that the council might conduct official business...
That Harvard has waited until 1986 to announce a probable women's studies concentration is more an embarrassment than a milestone. If the university follows through with its proposal, the future may be as rocky as the past without a long term commitment of teaching resources and a realistic assessment of students' needs...
...security policemen. The official toll: 107 killed and 719 injured, roughly three times the number originally reported. The riots' apparent cause: discontent of police conscripts, angry over poor pay and living conditions, who were soon joined by Fundamentalist agitators. The mutiny was quickly put down. In the short term, the government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that not even the disciplined and professional Egyptian army would be able to contain...
...Javits' illness, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, led to a new dependence on his wife and also to a final career crisis. Even after losing the Republican nomination to Alfonse D'Amato, the eternal public man refused to retire and insisted on running for a fifth term in 1980 as a Liberal. That stubbornness caused his only election loss...
...federal pardon might raise only $1 billion to $2 billion. Critics of an amnesty, including the IRS, contend that the extra revenue would be canceled out by increased evasion from scofflaws banking on similar programs in the future. "Even if an amnesty is successful, it is a short-term benefit," said Republican Senator Slade Gorton of Washington. "It tells taxpayers that they are suckers...