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Word: washingtonization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walk your way out of the Bureau of Study Council, far away from Harvard, and educate yourself in architectural heritage-Boston by Foot (77 N. Washington St.; 367-3766; Monday to Saturday 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m., tours run through October 31st rain or shine; $8; 90 minutes). Seven guided walks, covering the Freedom Trail, Back Bay Mansions, the Waterfront, Beacon Hill, the Italian North End, and "Boston Underground" (a tour of 19th-century crypts and engineering feats; read...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Mental | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

This was the main topic on the agenda last Wednesday in Washington...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine goes to bat in Washington to save funding | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...Rudenstine's role in lobbying Congress to maintain federal funding levels for university research programs, all the more crucial since the departure of Harvard's Washington point-person, Vice-President James H. Row III '73, is a welcome use of Harvard's prestige for a purpose beyond enlarging the endowment...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Saving Research Dollars | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...group of New England educational leaders, led by Rudenstine and Tufts University President John DiBiaggio, recently traveled to Washington to lobby legislators and White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not increase, current research efforts. The programs are threatened by the federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Saving Research Dollars | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...officials last week for bank statements, audiotapes and documents relating to the possible diversion of nearly $15 billion from Russia to U.S. shores ? and were turned down flat. According to a U.S. investigator, Moscow called the request an "unnecessary intrusion" into its internal affairs, and later, Russian investigators visiting Washington claimed they had not been shown any evidence supporting the allegations. (U.S. investigators said they showed the officials "irrefutable evidence" of billions of dollars laundered, including hundreds of documents tracing the transfer of money from Russia's Central Bank through U.S. banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surprise! Moscow Stonewalls on Laundering Probe | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

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