Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Siguler also praised Putnam's effective use of bond issues to finance campus-wide improvements, and his deep commitment to Harvard...
Since then the governing boards have remained virtually unchanged. The Corporation oversees the University's finances and long-range planning and sets University-wide policy in its biweekly meetings. The Overseers are more ceremonial, rubber-stamping major Corporation decisions such as appointments and serving as a breeding ground for Corporation members. The members work primarily through a host of committees considering various areas of the University...
Like my classmates. I have for the past quarter century engaged in that wider commerce, at Harvard and elsewhere. For the past eight years I have had responsibility for the well being of the current generation of undergraduates in the College. As we did, they find at Harvard a wide range of opportunities, successes and disappointments to fill their lives...
...will be pro-Mondale. By pooling their forces, though, Hart and Jackson could win the 25% committee vote necessary to produce a minority report, which could open the way to a floor fight on delegate credentials. The idea that enough Mondale delegates could actually be unseated to produce a wide-open convention seems the longest of long shots, but this has been a good year for the unexpected. -By George J. Church. Reported by Benjamin W. Cate/Los Angeles and Barry Kalb/Newark, with other bureaus
...under the most harrowing circumstances. On the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, while working in her city hall office as president of the board of supervisors, she heard a commotion down the hall and discovered the body of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first avowed homosexual elected to a city-wide office in San Francisco. He had been gunned down by an ex-colleague and political enemy on the board, Dan White. Moments later she heard the news that White had also shot and killed Mayor George Moscone in another part of the building. That automatically propelled her into the mayoralty...