Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today Harvard has a Freshman Dean's Offices complete with squadrons of proctors associate deans, and senior advisers, to cushion freshmen's transition from the real world to the yard. These hierarchies reign over six fiefdoms of the yard, providing support and advice while trying to remain unobtrusive. Former president A Lawrence Lowell class of 1880, called this system "Influence without vexation of grandmotherly regulation...
...throat-clearing chore of drafting a platform was complete, and the rafter-reaching speeches were about to begin. Inside the cavernous Dallas Convention Center, workmen folded down the last bright red cushion of the hall's 17,000 seats, providing a telegenic color complement to the acres of blue carpeting. VIPS began slipping into town, ferried between meetings in stretch limousines, some with real Texas longhorns protruding from their hoods. The blast-furnace August climate was performing on cue, with temperatures reaching the 100° mark. But the Big D's air-conditioned interiors were frigid enough to give a reasonable...
...divorce, the Reagan Administration and the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization last week raised a squabble over money. At issue: the return of more than $17 million contributed by the U.S. to a special fund set up to serve as a financial cushion in case currency fluctuations caused UNESCO to lose money. The funds were not needed, so, like other member nations, the U.S. expected a full return of its cash-with interest...
...renounces its anti-Western bias, including support for a "new world information order" that could muzzle journalists. A U.S. pullout would deprive UNESCO of about $43 million annually, roughly 25% of its budget. Aides to M'Bow told other members that UNESCO might not pay back the currency-cushion funds until 1985-and then only to nations that are paid-up UNESCO members. Snapped one member of the U.S. delegation: "It looks to us as if he's trying to rewrite the rules late in the game." But before tempers could flare further, the prospect of an amicable...
...Institute of Sports Medicine in New York, calls the knee the body's most vulnerable joint, "the most complicated and the least suited to perform what it is asked to do." Ligaments joining the femur and tibia wrap around the knee to keep the bones together; the only cushion between these bones is two thin bands of cartilaginous tissue called menisci. Unlike the shoulder and hip joints, which are buried under layers of muscle, the knee is protected only by the kneecap and a thin layer of tissue. The knee bears great weights, helps propel and stop the body...