Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overseers were chosen in an election by graduates of Harvard's nine faculties. Each will serve a six-year term on the 30 member board, which advises President Neil L. Rudenstine and forms committees to watch over the workings of the University...
...current policies be changed? There is a fairly painless short-term possibility. Every student who lives in University housing is required to purchase a 21-meal plan package. But when you get to Harvard, you realize that it is almost impossible to get everything done and still eat breakfast. Also, you may have class or have to work through lunch or even practice through dinner. The point is, no one eats all 21 meals. Harvard Dining Services has stated that its budget is based on the assumption that students will eat an average of only 14 meals. Nevertheless...
...While the arrests will fuel domestic criticism over the President's trip, the dissident issue is unlikely to disrupt the overall purpose of the visit. "Clinton is not going to China to undermine its regime, he's there to do business and build a long-term relationship," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Although he'll meet with Hong Kong's elected democrats, seeking meetings with dissidents would be taken as an insult by Beijing, and that's not his purpose." Still, by arresting dissidents a day after refusing entry visas to journalists from Radio Free Asia, Jiang Zemin...
...line-item veto, in terms of the money it saved, was always more show than substance," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "But it's much too popular to let go." Despite the slim likelihood of 34 states' ratifying an amendment that aims to cut out state-bound pork, the veto concept is highly marketable. "It'll be a show campaign issue again -- just like it was for the Republicans in 1994," says Tumulty. "It's right up there with term limits." And it conveniently reappears just in time for the election season...
...crisis. NATO is demanding that he withdraw his troops and negotiate to restore Kosovo's autonomy within the Yugoslavian federation. But even in the unlikely event that he complies, Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority would keep on fighting for independence from Belgrade. So air strikes are simply a short-term strategy to stop the Serb campaign against civilians. "There's no hope of any progress unless Milosevic makes some concessions, and so far he has given away nothing at all," says Calabresi. "He is pushing the situation toward violent confrontation." Perhaps the sight of Holbrooke will jog his memory...