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Word: action (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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SASC member Rob Weissman '88-89 said the action was to have expressed "concern that the members of Harvard's governing board are unable to arrive at unclouded decisions due to their conflicts of interest...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Activists Postpone Sit-In Because of Low Turnout | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

...union-busting firms financed by the investment banks, which constantly advertise on our pages, any less oppressed? If we view our advertising policy as an extension of our editorial policy, we'd have to pull the lion's share of our ads. It would be utterly hypocritical to take action on some issues, and ignore others. We can't pretend to institutional morality by pulling...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Unfriendly Advertising | 4/19/1989 | See Source »

Harvard knows that students care enough about their physical protection to take action to improve campus safety. The Take Back the Night rally, tonight at 8:30 in front of Memorial Church, is every student's opportunity to convince Harvard to care as well...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Take Back the Campus | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

Last week, the City Council voted to take legal action against the state if Dukakis does not agree to discuss the issue...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Walsh Mulls Asking Harvard for Loan | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

...black, have at times exacerbated. Republican TV spots on the Willie Horton case in last year's presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, "has rekindled in people's minds the connection between blacks and violent crime." - Affirmative action has provoked a second-generation backlash, particularly among working-class whites. In combining the roles of protest leader and political candidate, Jesse Jackson stokes this fear with his demands for "economic justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling An Old Bugaboo | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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