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Returning apparently fresh from his overseas travel this year, President Bok has renewed his call for a more "international" Harvard. He wants to bring more foreign students here and send more undergraduates over there, maybe laying the groundwork for the day, long after the end of "the Bok regime," when Harvard will have overseas campuses. But the arguments Bok has put forth so far to defend such moves are not convincing...
...years of dramatic slump, the country's $32 billion economy is expected to grow an impressive 6% to 7% this year. Inflation has fallen from 40% two years ago to about 1% or 2% today. Free-market-oriented economic reforms by the Aquino government have also laid the groundwork for future growth. Says Gordon Westly, vice president of Manila's American Chamber of Commerce: "We're on the slow road to recovery...
Despite those notes of caution, one Soviet official said he believed that at last week's visit to Moscow by Secretary of State George Shultz, groundwork was laid for a summit meeting this year between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...want to have a serious conference on educational issues, as well as to lay the groundwork for and organization for Massachusetts college Democrats," Mark Bodnick '90, and organizer of the convention, said yesterday...
...City Council vote last night laid the groundwork for Cambridge to adopt a sister city in El Salvador to counteract the damage that they say the American military has done in the Central American country...