Word: term
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what do I think is going to happen there? In the Middle East? We give them a political risk assessment." Kissinger's advice to prospective clients is blunt: "If they are looking for hot tips, they are not going to get them. We can be useful in strategy, middle-term decisions." What they get, says Eagleburger, is "Henry's fingerspitzengefuhl," his instinctive feel for a situation...
...would like to add my support and agreement to the letter of Professor Bell of Feb. 5 concerning the uses and abuses of the so-called "shopping period" at the beginning of each term. Of course students should be permitted to visit a number of classes before making final decisions as to which to take, as we did in my own student days. But we were expected to show up on time and sit through all of any lecture we attended; if we wished to visit a class which met at the same time...
...slightest sign of nervousness), or to know that the lecture is regarded more as an audition than as a learning experience. A point Professor Bell did not raise but which should be mentioned is that in large classes, the manners established during "shopping week" tend to last all term. Last fall, I gave a Core course with an enrollment of 155 in which people walked in every day 10 or 15 minutes early, disrupting the lecture in the process. These same people would then sometimes complain to me that they had missed important announcements about exams and papers, though...
...usually had to search long and hard for him. Often he would be found hiding in his office, doing administrative or fundraising work. Only late in his 10-year term did he hold open office hours...
When Eleanor Smeal, the president of the National Organization of Women, spoke at the Kennedy School Monday night, she was not just talking about "women's issues." Though it may survive for strategic reasons, the term is outdated. What have traditionally been called women's issues have emerged as problems of the family, civil rights, gay rights, and abortion...