Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...services by about 15 billion dollars while allowing the nation's arms arsenal to continue growing. Though some cuts of redundant or unnecessary programs may be justified, the proposed slashing of federal jobs programs, which would wipe out over 150,000 jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and practically eradicate the Youth Conservation Corps., does much more than eliminate wasteful government spending--it exposes the President as a man with little commitment to millions of jobless Americans. Today's unemployment rate of six per cent is fine by Jimmy Carter. And apparently, so is the higher unemployment...
Your refusal to carry the Playboy Magazine photo recruitment ad in The Harvard Crimson was an act of courage which I applaud. I deeply appreciate, from a thousand miles away, your recognition of sexism and your refusal to join the Playboy Corporation in sexist practices...
...America. Blue jeans (preferably American-made, even at $40 a pair) grace the derriere of virtually every French tennager. Far more American university t-shirts are seen in French villages than in American towns. American TV shows, very popular in France, give French teenagers new ideas about how to act and what to think. One day as I walked down the village's main street, a 10-year-old boy flashed me the thumbs-up sign and groaned, "Ayyyyyyyyy," a perfect imitation of his new hero, "the Fonz." American culture has also intruded its way into the French language, producing...
...unpleasant human realities: that people who lose their jobs do not eat, that people who lose their homes suffer, that people who are forced to live under despotic governments cannot enjoy even the most basic human liberties. But Harvard, for all its professed concern with proper behavior, does not act as if it recognizes these facts. Tied up in professional ethics, it ignores human ethics...
...statute will expire at the end of this year unless the West German parliament acts to extend or repeal it. If the parliament does not act, participants in Nazi atrocities who have not been tried will have immunity from prosecution...