Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funding for human services, the encouragement of long-term development in the city, and full support of affirmative action were also mandated in the platform...
Rarely have I seen more perceptive, on the money and downright lyrical reporting than that which appeared in Monday's Crimson (Sports Roundup...Other Action...
...Faculty Council discussed the possibility of the committee with junior Faculty in the Afro-American Studies Department two weeks ago, "as one course of action which might remedy problems in the department," Keller said...
Guinier said yesterday that the Faculty Council does not have the power to decide how the department chooses its Faculty. He said any such action would violate a 1973 Faculty resolution which gives Rosovsky and an interdepartmental committee power to search for tenured Faculty in the Afro-American Studies Department...
Against these detailed backgrounds, the characters are mere outlines. Walter Blackett, head of Blackett and Webb, the firm whose farflung enterprises frame most of the novel's action, is a buccaneer abroad and a fond family man at home. Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits. His opposite is young Matthew Webb, a bumbling idealist who despises colonialism but offers no better alternative than a vague new brotherhood...