Word: concord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that a spirit of economic cooperation, which prevailed only a year ago among the major Western economic powers, has seriously eroded. The basis for the turmoil: sharp differences between the Reagan Administration and U.S. trading partners over how to deal with the nation's huge trade deficit. Rather than concord, said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, "it's open warfare...
...Harvard women's soccer team added six prospects to a squad that finished fourth in the Ivies last year: Jen Gifford of Concord, Mass.; Amy Green of Short Hills, N.J.; Laurie Hauber of Brighton, Mich.; Andrea Montalbano of Miami, Fla.; Julie Scott of Concord, Mass.; and Chrissy Ulses of Springfield, Mass...
...Harvard women's soccer team added six prospects to a squad that finished fourth in the Ivies last year: Jean Gifford of Concord, Mass.; Amy Green of Short Hills, N.J.; Laurie Hauber of Brighton, Mich.; Andrea Montalbano of Miami, Fla.; Julie Scott of Concord, Mass.; and Chrissy Ulses of Springfield, Mass...
During the Revolutionary War, Harvard was taken over by 1,500 of Washington's troops as a barracks. When the students returned from temporary exile in Concord, they found that all the brass doorknobs were missing, and much of the lead roof had been melted down for bullets. Harvard subsequently granted Washington its first honorary doctorate in 1776, and the President later transferred his step-grandson there from Princeton on the theory that Harvard, still largely a school for clerics, was "less prone to dissipation and debauchery...
...southern France and the State Department's Paul Nitze was relaxing in Maine when the call came. This week these two polar opposites within the U.S. arms-control apparatus voyage to Moscow as part of a high-level mission to explain President Reagan's latest proposals and create enough concord to entice Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to set a date for a 1986 summit...