Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bok has the power to nip this nascent crisis in the bud. Surely Harvard does not need another racial blackeye. The Black workers and their supporters are still hoping that Bok will read the signs of the times. But thus far Bok seems more inclined to build walls than to read the handwriting on them...
Lowell House: The nascent "Edible Complex," which opened last May, is small fry compared to the other operations. Converted from a men's room in the basement of Lowell's dining hall, the snack bar is really more of a coffee house than a grill, according to House Committee Chairman Judith Kessler '84, who adds, " we haven't gotten rid of the urinals in the room...
This type of assistance actually started 30 years ago, when the Business School sent experts abroad to teach management techniques to try and stabilize the nascent economies of post-war France and Italy. But the bulk of the work in the ensuing era sought to change the world through more direct means...
While Bok has receives widespread praise for his work in expanding these nascent arrangements, national anti-apartheid groups criticize his contention that the programs are a substitute for--as opposed to a complement to--other actions, such as divestiture...
...itself as a melting pot, enriched by every culture yet subsuming all of them, dates back far beyond the huddled yearning masses at the Baja California border and Ellis Island, beyond the passage in steerage of victims of the potato famine and the high-minded Teutonic settlements in the nascent Midwest. Just months after the Revolution was won, in 1782, French-American Writer Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur said of his adopted land: "Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." Americans embittered by the wars of Europe knew that fusing diversity into unity...