Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began a lonely but determined campaign to create a national poetic license. Last year he finally succeeded. Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin agreed that each new consultant in poetry to the Library, a post that has existed for 50 years and carries a one- or two-year term, would also bear the title of poet laureate. Matsunaga was understandably elated: "The poet laureate of the U.S. will raise the prestige and respect of the poet to the point where youngsters will aspire to become poets, just as politically minded youngsters aspire to the presidency...
...English counterpart (currently Poet Ted Hughes). The U.S. job pays $36,000, and an additional $10,000 has been appropriated for a poetry conference at which the poet laureate may read, if he wants to. He will not hold the title for life, but only until his term as | consultant to the Library is over. And he will not be expected to produce occasional verse or commemorative odes at anyone's behest. "I would not think of doing such a thing," says Warren...
...Philippines? While the two men talked, Laxalt said later, it became apparent that Marcos was "hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws." He asked whether the reference to a "peaceful transition" meant he should stay on until 1987, when his current term was originally supposed to end, and he wondered whether some sort of power-sharing arrangement with the Philippine opposition could be worked...
...then, of course, students would have griped that the council had spent $100 extorted from their term bills just to talk to a few constituents. Catch...
...will be allowed to remain on campus, take final exams, and receive credit for course work for this term, which ends Wednesday, McLaughlin said...