Word: furthering
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Bok, who in his two decades as president has seen Harvard continually struggle with activists over the issue of South African investments, said there was no reason to consider the policy further precisely because it has already been so extensively discussed.
Councillors said they were concerned that the state's budget crisis will cause a sharp reduction in aid to local governments this year, forcing cuts in many city services. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis slashed more than $3 million in aid to Cambridge this summer, and state officials have predicted that...
A Miami television station went further, reporting that Zell and Lehtinen owned a house together but kept it in her name to shelter it from the divorce settlement. Zell signed the house over to him after the divorce was final. Lehtinen later married a fellow state legislator (now a Republican...
-- Just as Armenians fled from Azerbaijani pogroms the week before, some 15,000 dependents of the military and KGB divisions stationed in the republic were evacuated. "We could hear shooting in the city," Nadezhda Appakov, an officer's wife, told TASS. "We feared for our children most of all, because...
But with its members dominating the panel, China not only rejected any increase but diluted democracy further by giving extra weight to the votes of the indirectly elected legislators -- those chosen mainly by groups representing such constituencies as business, the professions and labor. Next month Hong Kong will have a...