Word: concessional
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When the Library Corporation announced earlier this month that the monumental 85-foot-high glass pyramid would be replaced by a lower-slung brick museum, community groups attacked the move as a "cosmetic" change. They said the alteration in the museum was designed only to save money without cutting down...
Bangladesh's decision to abandon the war-crimes trials was a major concession. But it had been more or less expected after Prime Minister Zulfikar
For better or worse, the Afro-American Studies Department and the controversies in which it has been embroiled these past five years are the legacy of the student rebellion that swept over Harvard in the spring of 1969. Although there is no doubt that Harvard would have a black studies...
The upheaval in Ethiopia, which began with a strike by teachers and taxi drivers and culminated in a military mutiny, continued unchecked last week. Beleaguered Emperor Haile Selassie, 81, offered the protesters concession after concession, only to see them ask for even more reforms. By promising changes for his semifeudal...
But the councilman claims that he qualified his pledge to Boston '73 a few weeks after making the promise. DiCara also disputes the claim that he switched his vote as a political concession to Mayor Kevin White, a chief proponent of the Park Plaza project.