Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started courting the company earlier this year. After the collapse of those negotiations, auto-industry analysts expected Italy's Fiat to be the winning suitor. For Saab-Scania, which lost $123 million on its car-making operations in the first half of 1989, the advantage of the deal was access to GM's deep pockets. GM will gain badly needed production capacity at Saab's five plants in Europe, plus a stronger position in the U.S. and European luxury-car markets...
...other student movements, it has taken even less time to lose momentum. Two years ago, Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT) was one of the most vocal organizations on campus. In the wake of a complaint filed by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 to force the Fly Club to open its doors to women, students postered the campus, rallied outside club parties and called on the Undergraduate Council to denounce final club sexism...
...public declarations do not explore why such attitudes exist, and how they might be changed. The University's implicit acceptance and subsidization of all-male clubs--including the Pi Eta as well as nine final clubs--probably has something to do with it. Harvard currently offers the final clubs access to the steam heat system, centrex phones and alumni records. Such involvement with groups that, as a matter of policy, exclude women, can only be seen as an insult to the principle of total equality of women...
...Science Center. Student guards were replaced by uniformed University guards. These guards patrol the center 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. every weekday, all day during weekends, holidays and vacations, according to Assistant Director of the Science Center John B. Mathers. The guards also check for University identification, and access to the upper floors is limited...
...feared that all she had worked for was in danger when the Supreme Court handed down its Webster decision this past July, permitting states to narrow a woman's access to abortion. Planned Parenthood, the nation's oldest and largest family-planning organization, is also the premier institution providing abortions around the country, and Wattleton is fiercely dedicated to protecting that service. She had visions of Roe v. Wade being overturned, and spoke darkly of a return to the era of back-alley abortions...