Word: used
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe wants women to make full use of their potential, then Wilson must use her influence with Harvard to speak out about women faculty and issues which concern undergraduate women. Radcliffe's current policy of "benign neglect" will only continue to alienate women students, and will ultimately undermine its own future...
...College attacked the sexuality of youth as psychiatrically and morally harmful. Officials cried that "trouble has arisen because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now, for a growing number of students, come to be considered a license to use the College rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," and they said that sexual intercourse, before college graduation, could be mentally harmful...
Professional interpreters are among the first to admit the sad state of translation in the courts. They are often relegated to clerical status, with low pay, and asked to work without time to prepare. Says New York interpreter Gabriel Felix: "We could use a central administrator, dictionaries and in some courts a place to hang our coats, a chair and a desk...
...Gorbachev as a diplomatic mission aimed at normalizing relations with the People's Republic of China quickly evolved into a diplomatic mission of another sort: how to pretend your hosts are not trying to put down a revolution at the same time they're teaching you how to use chopsticks. This scenario, alas, was not covered in the slim white protocol books given to the Soviet entourage and the 80 or so reporters who accompanied Gorbachev from Moscow. What the book did cover often proved useless. Gorbachev did not "arrive by car" at Tiananmen Square nor, accompanied by two soldiers...
...city's attention was riveted on the Bund, the broad avenue along the river where 100,000 protesters marched. Thus the ships neatly symbolized the peripheral role that Washington played throughout last week. With the explosion of people power, the State Department could do little but advise Beijing to use caution, and it had only a few desultory comments about the historic handshake between Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping. Finding American officials who were even slightly uneasy about the freshly minted Sino-Soviet friendship was almost impossible. Was George Bush worried? "No problem," said the President. "A healthy development," said...