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...just happened that at Yale there was the critical mass that was necessary," says Nancy F. Cott. chairman of the women's studies department at Yale. The groundwork for the department was laid with the first women's studies courses in 1969, just after Yale went co-educational. For the next few years, student-faculty committees met to discuss a formal program, and in 1979 a women's studies program was introduced, which was not yet able to grant degrees. Cott calls the program "something of an anomaly," but she adds. "We always saw it as heading for a major...
...gamble of high-level diplomacy must be undertaken immediately, although he recognizes that failure would worsen the problem markedly. But he felt, as an aide put it, that he had "a reasonable shot" at succeeding. Haig saw last week's trip as a chance to prepare the groundwork for serious bargaining by immersing himself for the first time in the complex mixture of history, prejudice, aspirations and paranoia that governs Middle Eastern diplomacy...
Michael Chechinski, a researcher at the Russian Research Center, noted that in recent months Jaruzelski has consolidated the military's position in the government, elevating several key generals and retaining for himself the defense ministry, thus laying the groundwork for the shift to military rule...
...Democratic Club went to Beacon Hill as part of an "effort to get Harvard-Radcliffe students involved in local affairs," Velona said, adding the visit would help lay the "groundwork" for club participation in local issues later this year...
Both Roger Moore and Ronald Brown believed that the conference had some significance for their parties, if not an immediate effect. "It laid important groundwork for the possibility of doing things on broader issues in the future," Brown said...