Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future is bright for the Radcliffe Institute, but it is still hazy for student groups and concerned women on campus. We hope that in the coming year, Harvard and Radcliffe, together in a new partnership, will allay our fears and realize our dreams...
...moment, the students seem to be willing to work in partnership with the institution to try and find solutions," he says, citing PSLM and the Living Wage Campaign as groups willing to work with the administration...
...much for the vaunted "strategic partnership" between the U.S. and China. Less than a year ago, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang Zemin stood side by side in Beijing cordially airing their differences in a joint press conference. Last week Jiang refused to take Clinton's phone calls. "Without question," says a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington, "this marks the low point in relations since 1972," the year Richard Nixon visited China. When Madeleine Albright went to the Chinese embassy in Washington to offer her apologies, Ambassador Li kept her waiting in an anteroom for 20 minutes, then pointedly told...
...fads as public education (Remember values clarification? Self-esteem development?), character ed is now the hottest thing going. If it hasn't hit your local school district yet, just wait. Some form of it is being taught in all 50 states, according to Esther Schaeffer of the Character Education Partnership, an advocacy group in Washington. Georgia and Alabama have made such programs mandatory, and more states are now debating legislation that would follow their lead. Last year the federal Department of Education handed out $5.2 million to schools for character ed; the figure is expected to double next year...
...Powell also likes to discover unconventional partners. For instance, he gratefully accepted the American Trucking Associations' $100,000 but enjoyed even more kicking off Trucker Buddies, which pairs long-haul drivers with classrooms so that kids learn geography and math by tracking Macks across the country. In launching the partnership from an 18-wheeler, Powell flattened only two red cones...