Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even with the cushion of the Campaign, the Faculty's zealous salary-raising took its toll in tuition costs, which soared this spring, bringing the total cost of spending the '82-'83 academic year at Harvard to $12,100. "You just have to balance one against the other," shrugs Gerrity...
...ramifications of a rejected tenure offer go beyond the fact that Harvard loses out on a certain scholar. Putting together a tenure offer is exhausting work for a department, involving endless paperwork and long, often nasty debating sessions. An unsuccessful offer takes its toll on a department's morale and may exacerbate divisiveness among its faculty members...
...those dark festivals were leading to. Last Monday, after the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano, British armchair admirals were smugly analytical about the deficiencies of the Argentine forces. One day later Mrs. Thatcher listened ashen-faced in the House of Commons as her Defense Secretary announced the death toll from the destroyer Sheffield. Sobered, the world sat upright. It was precisely because the war had seemed so playful initially that it seemed so dreadful now. If anything, it appeared worse than it was, so shocked was everyone by the execution of the inevitable...
...attack on the Belgrano, the Argentines gained spectacular revenge. British Defense Secretary John Nott appeared before a dismayed House of Commons to report that a British destroyer, the 4,100-ton Sheffield, had been demolished by a French-built Exocet antiship missile fired from an Argentine fighter-bomber. The toll of dead, wounded and missing among the 270-member crew was 44; the death count was later announced to be about...
...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...