Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next and last TIME 100 issue, looking at the heroes and icons who shaped our century, comes out this summer. Then we'll begin the daunting task of picking a Person of the Century. Comparing the impact of scientists with that of artists, leaders and heroes will be difficult. Even with the luxury of historic hindsight, it's hard to gauge who had the most effect. (Pop quiz: Who had more lasting influence in the 16th century, Shakespeare or Martin Luther, Magellan or Michelangelo, Elizabeth I or the Mogul leader Akbar...
...Godwin shows no interest in undercutting or exposing her heroine-narrator. The author has accomplished something more difficult than ridicule; she has created a character who has enough flaws to satisfy contemporary skeptics but who also struggles convincingly with the old-fashioned task of being a good person. For all its leisurely pace, Evensong turns out, near the end, to have wasted few words. It concludes with an Epilogue, set further in the future than its opening chapter, that not only ties up loose ends but also dares to be, in these uncertain times, optimistic...
...ROTC Task Force Authorization Bill" docketed by the council's Student Affairs Committee (SAC) states the council's approval for reinstituting ROTC on campus and sets up a task force that will clarify the College's current policy and investigate the practical aspects of bringing back the program...
...Wednesday, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced that Harvard will form a faculty task force to examine University labor policy...
...eight-year pre-tenure period is difficult for both male and female junior Faculty members, but it can be an especially hard task for women...