Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talked to dining hall personnel at Winthrop and Eliot who echoed similar views. They admitted that there is a rat infestation problem--not only at Winthrop but in many other dining halls--but pointed out that exterminators visit the dining halls once per week...
INDEED, several Harvard dining halls--certainly Winthrop's--are sitting on what are essentially festering rat nests. Harvard officials have not addressed this serious problem and potential health hazard effectively. Having a weekly visit by an exterminator is not enough--especially when it is clear to service personnel and residents alike that the problem is becoming more acute rather than subsiding...
...meetings lasted only 15 to 25 minutes, including opening pleasantries and time for translation. In a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, Bush refrained from discussing in detail such key topics as trade and sharing the defense burden. In China, where Bush stopped Saturday and Sunday, his visit mostly renewed friendships dating back to his residence there as U.S. envoy in the mid-1970s. The entire basis of the relationship between the U.S. and China, which was founded on mutual distrust of the Soviet Union, is changing as Gorbachev prepares to visit Beijing in May for a summit with...
...right- wing Likud bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
Nearly three years after the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev made his first visit to Chernobyl last week. The Soviet leader seemed intent on cleaning up the continuing environmental and political fallout from the accident. Soviet newspapers in recent weeks have reported the births of deformed farm animals and widespread radioactive contamination of land and food. Local workers surrounded Gorbachev to tell him of their worry about the health consequences...