Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Bok proceeded, year by year, to make Harvard a less open institution. Voices from the outside--especially students--still have no say in the governance of the University; the seven-member Corporation is still the ultra-secret governing board it was 20 years ago. Even when change was urged from the inside, the University under Bok found a way to subvert it. When activists on the Board of Overseers tried to clean up Harvard's investment portfolio, Bok and other administrators stamped out the dissent. And when Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tried to begin discussion...
Those laid-off Wall Streeters who can't afford a power tie shouldn't despair about finding work -- or natty clothes. Bergdorf Goodman, the ultra-tony Manhattan retailer, thinks displaced brokers would have a knack for peddling $1,000 suits on Fifth Avenue. To staff a new men's store, Bergdorf courted former financial pitchmen in a help-wanted ad in the Wall Street Journal: "From brokering to banking, if you've a proven track record in sales, the new Bergdorf Goodman Men's Store offers a career opportunity that is at once exciting and rewarding." Bergdorf says it swiftly...
...revolutions of 1989 have not yet ended. As one East bloc regime after another was shaken by political change last fall, only one Communist government in Europe managed to withstand the political earthquake unscathed. Now, nearly six months later, the leadership of tiny Albania is finally loosening its ultra-orthodox Stalinist grip. Last week the legislature in Tirana voted a series of political and legal reforms that may mark the beginning of the end of decades of repression and isolation...
...platform for outrageous minority views. With only 1% of the vote -- just 22,000 ballots in 1988 -- needed to win a seat, the 120-member Knesset must give house room to a stunning variety of opinions in an exceptionally opinionated nation. Its 15 parties offer something for everyone: ultra- Orthodox rabbis who disdain Israeli statehood, Zionist leftists and Arab communists who support Palestinian statehood, and right-wing extremists who want to expel the Palestinians...
...Regional representation. Knesset members are accountable only to the party; a constituency system would require them to speak for the voters. But full regional representation would also require safeguards to ensure that Israeli- Arab and ultra-Orthodox Jewish voters were not wholly disfranchised...