Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious as each of the issues Carter confronted was, no monumental crisis arose against which the newcomer from Georgia could truly define himself. He could not single-mindedly fight the Depression and the Axis as did Franklin Roosevelt. He could not push through a major civil rights act and wage a war on poverty as did Johnson. Few unexpected gestures seemed to offer themselves. The first opening to China gave Nixon an aura of authority in foreign affairs, and the Cuban missile crisis offered John Kennedy the chance to prove his courage...
...opinion of our lawyers that the faculty are unfairly holding a strike over our heads unless we share managerial power with them," Ted Frederickson, spokesman for the university, said yesterday. He added that "the National Labor Relations Act requires employers and unions to bargain over issues such as wages and hours, but not over managerial power...
...fact is, until only about 15 years ago the United States practiced its own form of apartheid. The experience of dismantling our home-grown version (a task as yet incomplete) obliges us to act on the appeals of those black and white people in South Africa who are struggling to undo the injustices with which they live every day. What Harvard and all colleges and universities in this country can do to help is to divest from those corporations which operate in South Africa. Richard Valelly '80 Third-year graduate student in Government
...away from an impoverished child watching it (actually you might sort of like that one), he poses as an old friend to get information from your neighbors, he gets on the phone and starts out happily, "Joe, is this Joe? Wow, great to get through to you," drops the act and it's "Where the hell is my money, Joe. I'm getting disappointed in you." He sounds a bit more than disappointed, and the old horror-fascination of watching someone just this side of the law keeps you involved...
...cagers will remain in the friendly confines of the IAB this weekend with contests against Bridgewater St., Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Boston College Saturday at 2 p.m. The Crimson will take its act on the road Tuesday, February 6 for a game at Connecticut College before the squad journeys to New Haven, Ct., for the Ivy League tournament February...