Word: contention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Closer to home, the CFA has proposed building a $20 million, four-meter telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. "Harvard has been dragging its feet," however, content to rely on the Smithsonian-owned observing facilities, says Geller. The new telescope would cost two-thirds of the center's annual operating budget...
...Bush Administration, such protests are not necessarily all bad. Rather than pressure Shamir directly, Bush's top advisers seem content to let the intifadeh do it for them. "We can let the uprising proceed, let the pressures continue to work on public opinion in Israel and the United States," explains a senior Bush adviser, "and try to channel those pressures in constructive directions." So for the time being, the Administration feels that the best policy is one of patient incrementalism. "The President does not believe conditions now exist for making peace, but he would like to see those conditions fostered...
Core Lite Dept.: A word about The Liberal Boutique's favorite topic--Social Analysis 10. An anonymous Ec 10 section leader tells me that Prof. Martin S. Feldstein, not content to head one of Harvard's largest courses, is out to increase enrollment. "Marty thinks everyone should take it," he said...
...Bush's handling of the budget also reeks of this reactive, incapacitated management style. Bush did present, as he promised, a reasonable budget, only he let Congress do the work of filling in the blanks. Rather than be at the front of lawmaking action, Bush was content to leave himself out of the process...
Bush, however, seems content to ignore any pressing long-term issues in order to remain in office. He seems more intent on winning reelection than on improving American society...