Word: departing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's chief financial officers, Proctor will depart in the middle of the University's $2.1 billion capital campaign, a fundraising drive whose scope is unprecedented in higher education...
...Haiti $235 million last year; this year Clinton has asked for $115 million, and Congress has so far coughed up almost nothing. International lenders have turned off the spigot until Haiti adopts austerity reforms. Washington has declared the country a "safe and secure environment," which allows the peacekeepers to depart. By the measure of organized assassination, violence has subsided: only 20 killings that the U.N. delicately calls "commando-style executions" have taken place, a huge improvement over the 3,000 or so notched up by the military regime from 1991 to 1994. But Haitians complain that the respite will...
MORE ARMS AND TRAINING FOR THE Bosnian Muslims [WORLD, Jan. 15] increase the likelihood that war will resume once NATO troops depart. The nominally federated Muslims and Croats of Bosnia may be tempted to resolve their seemingly irreconcilable differences at the expense of the Bosnian Serbs. The spoils from a joint military campaign to expel the Bosnian Serb nation would be allocated mainly to a Muslim entity, which would then accept its lot as a satellite of Greater Croatia. There is a precedent for what amounts to "benign ethnic cleansing." Croatia, with Washington's blessing, invaded the U.N.-protected Krajina...
...JEANS: "FERRY BOAT" This TV ad has a terrifically imaginative boy-chases-girl premise. In it, a bearded twentysomething frantically pulls up to a boat as it is about to depart. His license plate reads OHIO. He's looking for the beauty in Lees, and when he finds her, he hands her a necklace. "Excuse me," he says. "You dropped this back there." She smiles and asks, "Where?" His response: "In Nebraska...
...storm will bring anything from 6 to 15 inches of snow and sleet to the area, starting mid-afternoon today, according to the national weather service's branch in Boston. Gusty winds are expected to worsen the travel conditions just as Harvard students scramble to depart safely for the holidays...