Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans could avoid so many severe environmental crises by merely looking ahead occasionally. What can the Harvard community do? We can look beyond the trendy issues of the day and work to preserve the environment as a whole. A problem shouldn't have to reach emergency proportions and appear on the pages of every publication in the land before people begin to address it. Paper recycling is a great idea, but what about a campus-wide campaign to cut down on the needless waste of electricity and water? A sticker on the inside of dorm room doors saying...
...some professors cancelled classes anyway, and many supported the strike by changing teaching plans. Some professors used class time to discuss state spending issues, took students outside to protests or moved courses to avoid crossing picket lines...
...sustained push for recycling now could have additional benefits in the future. As Massachusetts' landfills approach full capacity, the state seems likely to enact some kind of mandatory recycling legislation in the next few years. If Harvard acts now, it can avoid the rush. The University should initiate a recycling progam on its own terms, instead of waiting until recycling systems are a seller's market...
...night stand still exists, that many or most look with admiration on those who have managed to balance school and love and those who plan to marry. The youth of the '80s are not monolithic in their "deglandularization," but if we must have a tendency, it is to avoid the wreckage of the "love-the-one-you're-with" generation...
Neither would call the session a summit; it is supposed to be too informal for that. To avoid an overcharged atmosphere at their first encounter, Bush and Gorbachev plan to talk without any specific agenda, avoid signing any agreements and part without even issuing a communique. The principal aim, said Bush, is to "deepen our respective understanding of each other's views...