Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even the solitary act of writing is influenced by the center. "We're not writing the kind of books, unless there's some mistake, that will find their way to racks in bus stations," says Joseph Beatty, who will be teaching philosophy at Duke next year. But he finds himself thinking oddly subversive thoughts, like "I have to persuade society philosophers are needed...
...Indochinese. In March he announced another such parole: 25,000 Soviet and Eastern European refugees (mostly Jews) and 35,000 Indochinese will be allowed in by October. Bell is uncomfortable with such an improvised approach to refugee admissions. He strongly supports the Administration's proposed Refugee Act of 1979, sponsored in the Senate by Edward Kennedy, which will raise the normal refugee allotment to 50,000 per year.* It will also give the President authority to handle "emergency" situations of unexpected numbers seeking asylum. Hearings on the bill began last week...
...government that appears capable of ruling the country for a full five-year term. That electoral stability allows Thatcher to confront the unions head on?if she so chooses. The big question facing Britain now is whether the determined Iron Lady, having gained the pinnacle of political success, will act according to the sharp words that sometimes marked her campaign rhetoric, or the conciliatory ones of St. Francis that she quoted so movingly on the doorstep...
...wide political spectrum. To be sure, a number of relatively unknown conservatives who make up Thatcher's "inner team" won places in the government. But many top jobs went to relatively liberal party veterans who have reservations about Thatcher's attitudes and judgment, and who will act as a brake on some of her more abrasive economic, social and foreign policy views...
Quite possibly, Sears would have reduced its prices even if COWPS had not acted. The company's sales have slumped for eight consecutive months, largely because it moved away from discounting in an effort to improve profit margins. Now Sears can claim that price reductions are an act of inflation-fighting patriotism instead of a necessary step to woo back customers, and it can blame any lower profits on Government pressure...