Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Despair. An inauspicious start, you say. Sit on your bed and wait. Your proctor will come by and console you. He will even know your name and recognize your face. They have to study the freshman face book...
...their nature--and Harvard's unwillingness to support them in large quantities--they benefit only a lucky few. The multitudes sit in large, generally uncomfortable lecture halls, stare at the professor (or out the window), mechanically take notes they will stow away until right before an exam, and wait impatiently for the hour...
...necessary to wait some months longer to see if Khomeini can be led to understand that he can do nothing...
...will take 168,000 refugees over the next twelve months, has by far the largest quota (next biggest: Canada, which has pledged to accept 50,000 by the end of 1980), it also has one of the most time-consuming screening procedures. A family eligible for immigration typically must wait 14 to 16 months while its members are subjected to a series of four widely separated interviews by different organizations, all covering the same ground. Refugees with communicable diseases like tuberculosis may be delayed indefinitely. By the time a refugee is on a U.S.-bound plane, says an American refugee...
...relatives in the British colony are hampered by the fact that Hong Kong immigration officials inexplicably make a practice of registering refugees by number rather than by name. Even after a refugee is finally located and sponsored by a relative or a refugee agency in the U.S., he can wait for weeks for a medical checkup. Since the U.S. has failed to dispatch a team of public health physicians, refugees have to be examined by local doctors who must work them into their crowded appointment schedules...