Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after the abolition of apartheid in 1993, Harvard is reinvesting in South Africa, and Harvard's professors are turning their interest toward the country as well...
...belief, though, that Harvard has some responsibility to monitor the choices available to highly driven students such as Jason, to make sure they don't find themselves in the situation he did. Greater student oversight from other faculty members is an important departmental step toward achieving this goal; recognizing faculty achievement in mentoring on a university-wide basis is also a laudable effort...
...appears that opposition demands to let bad banks fail have been met by making assistance to the stricken Long Term Credit Bank -- one of the country's largest -- conditional on effectively declaring it bankrupt. "Compromise between Obuchi and the opposition is the first good sign that they're moving toward resolving the banking crisis," says Baumohl. "But with Japan's banks holding as much as $1 trillion in bad loans, there's a lot more to be done...
Gennifer Flowers took her first step toward what she hopes will be a singing career on the Las Vegas Strip, and her repertoire this week was anything but subtle. Flowers, who nearly derailed President Clinton's bid for the White House in 1992, sang "Who's Got the Last Laugh Now?" and "Why Haven't I Heard From You?" during her performance at the Electronic Retailing Association's annual conference at the MGM Grand Hotel. Flowers declined to comment on Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky because, she said, she has no interest in generating...
...Victory by supporters of Bosnia's most-wanted war criminal, former president Radovan Karadzic, undermines what has been the West's optimistic strategy: move the country toward democratic stability by building a moderate political center (while dangling the carrot of financial aid). With the triumph of separatism, all that remains is to keep the two warring factions apart. "This challenges the idea that Bosnia is a situation from which the West will be able to withdraw at some point," says Calabresi. "It's starting to look more like Cyprus, where keeping the peace demands a long-term commitment...