Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Contract negotiations between the University and the Harvard Police Association broke down at the wire last July when the two sides differed over what the police administration meant when it ordered "biannual physical examinations" for the officers. The union's dictionary defined the key word as meaning "twice a year"; Harvard's edition read "once every two years." It took until December--almost a full year after the union's first contract expired--before both sides patched up their semantic differences and signed a new pact...
...word around University Hall the past few years was that the days of student protest had vanished in a cloud of pre-professional anxiety. The word was wrong...
...clearly, with regard to students, "persuasion" is an empty word. While calm dialogue with administrators is useful, and should continue in the future, it is only naive for students to expect much to come of such exchanges--at least as long as administrators bring to them the kind of defensive, uncommunicative attitude that characterized Presidents Bok's walk through the demonstration of April 24 and his address to Quincy House seniors the following Monday. While it is impossible to predict the shape of Harvard's anti-apartheid movement in the fall, students must not acquiesce to the April decision...
Today, in a remarkable turnabout, a growing number of Americans have begun looking for a better way of dealing with the dying. In their search they have reached back to the Middle Ages, when religious orders established hospices (derived from the Latin word for guest) to care for travelers as well as ailing and dying pilgrims. Within the past few years, 130 groups have organized hospice programs, and about 20 institutions recognized by the newly formed National Hospice Organization (N.H.O.) are operating in the U.S. Unlike the way stations of the past, the present-day hospices provide more than attentive...
...Commission, but Colombo was shunned as a stool pigeon and small-time hood by other leaders. Police speculated that his violation of the Cosa Nostra's traditional oath of silence, with his highly visible activities in the league (one aim of which was the elimination of the word Mafia from the U.S. lexicon), triggered the assassination attempt that left him almost completely paralyzed...