Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...three scholars at once, Harvard has made a bold move which could convince outside scholars of its commitment to Afro-Am. Witness the case of one of the three potential senior appointments--Nellie Y. McKay, the University of Wisconsin literary scholar who last fall turned down a Harvard tenure offer...
...department voted to give an old rescue van to Jahrstedt, a small East German farm center just 1 1/2 miles away via a newly opened border post. But the transfer bogged down in government red tape, and the van sits idle in a garage in the West. Still, the offer led to discussions among the fire fighters. Within two weeks the fire departments met over steins of beer and plates of wurst for professional talk. At present they are working out disaster plans and communications problems...
...agree to pay the money they owe on an installment plan. Televerket is starting the service, which has already been tested by a few local phone companies, in part because unemployment has reached nearly 5%, a record high for Norway. Compassion has its limits, however. The company does not offer the arrangement to customers with a long history of poor payment...
...officials at the Education Department offer a different analysis of the Bush budget. They say that because of budget constraints, the government cannot spend as much as it would like to on education. They also point out that the federal government has traditionally played an insignificant role in funding education when compared to the roles of states and local communities...
...time to question that tradition. As Harvard enters its multi-billion dollar fundraising drive, will it continue to offer spaces in the first-year class to the children of high bidders? Or will it remove a lingering vestige of its discriminatory past by renouncing an undeniably unjust policy...