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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young man in the tie and sweater holding a copy of the Watch tower, who stands at the door of an apartment in suburban Thousand Oaks, 40 miles and several dozen life-styles northwest of Melrose, fixing the uninterested girl who answered the door with his deep eyes, saying, "Today I'm here to talk about God's word...
...Sales are booming," Gary Lawton, sales manager for the University Press, said this week. Forty thousand copies of the book have been sold since it was released February 20. The fifth printing is now in progress and will bring the total number of copies in print to 70,000. Lawton added. He estimated that 100,000 copies will eventually be sold...
...with the founding of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC). The Harvard Corporation and the ACSR at this time recognized no special problems with corporations doing business in South Africa, but after a year of rallies, pickets and packed ACSR hearings, culminating in a 3000- (yes, that's three thousand) person torchlight parade and day-long blockade of University Hall, not only did the Corporation agree that South Africa as an institutionally racist state was a unique light on the face of the world, but it agreed to divest from all banks that lent for any reason to the South...
Silvera began his work on metallic hydrogen while at the University of Amsterdam, where he taught for 11 years until 1982, when he joined the Harvard faculty. He has also worked at the Roskwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He received his degree from the University of California at Berkeley
...competition for high-caliber graduate programs or prestigious fellowships, any incident involving formal disciplinary bodies increases the possibility of rejection. Consider Harvard Medical School. According to one pre-med tutor, approximately four to six thousand applicants vie for 160 slots each year. Most administrators read 60 applications a night in the screening process, and even the most dedicated admissions officer is hard pressed to spend more than six to 10 minutes on an application. Notices of disciplinary action--even trivial incidents, are flags for rejections...