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Word: unwillingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, Bok participates in sporadic meetings and cute publicity-generating events, such as the tea party in the freshman dormroom that he attended last week. Bok's isolated efforts to receive student input are inadequate. He was willing to collect a college-wide survey on general issues in 1988, but...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: No Bok Payments | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

Jerusalem has been in the middle of a game of hot potato ever since. The main obstacle: how to assemble a Palestinian delegation that gives Arafat a voice but allows Israel to pretend that the P.L.O. is not party to negotiations. So far, no formula has been found. While the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Still Stuck in the Stone Age | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Even some undergraduates who otherwise seem concerned with the staff-student relationship have been unwilling to deal with the issue openly and explicitly. In an internal memorandum, Thomas J. Conally, Jr. '90 and newly-elected PBHA president Rosa A. Ehrenreich '91 argued that facts of the Reeves incident should not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staff Infection | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

A frustrated Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, later told the New York Times that the arrangements his affiliates had made with CNN "must be explored sooner or later." But the NBC affiliates rebuffed Gartner's suggestion. "It's too late for the networks to go back to the old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV News: The Sky's the Limit | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Actually, I don't have bladder control problems, but this hypothetical scenario aptly illustrates how Americans in particular and humans in general foolishly ignore pressing environmental questions. We are unwilling to suffer minor inconvenience now for the sake of a habitable planet later.

Author: By Steven J. S. glick, | Title: C'mon, Change the Sheets | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

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