Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president's commission displayed cowardice in failing to propose a halt to nuclear plant constructions. But Carter and Congress--which is now considering construction ban legislation--still can act bravely on the panel's disturbing conclusions...
...continued to exert pressure on the Harvard Corporation to share the problems and responsibilities of providing people with housing with the City of Cambridge. They, Harvard and M.I.T., were forced to get into the Cambridge housing act. Both of those Universities built about 1,000 apartments for Cambridge elderly. It is said that I, as a City Councilor, suggested that Harvard Yard be paved and turned into a parking lot. Again, the Harvard Corporation responded to pressure by creating a parking lot across the Charles at the Harvard Business School and using a shuttle bus service...
Moses read freshmen comments stressing the importance of an interested section leader. He also compared freshman year to a wilderness in which teachers must act as compasses. All panel members agreed that students learn more easily when they are actively involved...
...principle foreign military presence in Korea, it gained leverage by moving swiftly in the current crisis to preserve stability on the Korean peninsula, placing U.S. forces in a state of readiness to forestall any North Korean adventures. The U.S. must use its diplomatic and economic leverage to act as an honest broker with the current rulers of South Korea, pressing for the release of political prisoners, an end to the "thought police" role taken on by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), and the establishment of free elections as soon as possible...
...published a system of equations known today as "guage theory." Guage theory serves as a sort of mathematical telescope, changing one frame of reference completely so as to allow it to be compared to another. In this particular instance, the two frames of reference were the electromagnetic forces, which act on large, easily-observed objects, and the weak forces, which act on sub-atomic particles. Guage theory reveled striking symmetries" that otherwise would not have been observable...