Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that. She's had enough of all the speculation about her appointment, and of all the writers who've made their prejudices about women sportswriters obvious in their profiles of her. Of course, one can't overlook the Times's out-of-court settlement of a 1978 class action suit charging it with discriminatory hinning and promotion practices. Or its subsequent agreement to fill 25 per cent of its senior editorial staff positions with women and other minorities. But as A.M. Rosenthal executive editor of the Times, insists. "We didn't choose a woman sports editor. We choose a sports...
...food service subcommittee of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) Monday approved a fast that the Hunger Action Committee will sponsor on April 26 to raise funds for three shelter programs aiding the homeless in Cambridge and Boston...
SASC is also trying to make people aware that the fight against apartheid in this country is not restricted to college campuses. "This is the last day of the National Week of Action Against Apartheid," Jessica S. Banthin '81, another organizer, said. "We are going to focus on the fact that this is a national movement," she added...
...were abandoned when the faculty agreed to settle for a contract ignoring student issues. Many students are also worried that faculty salary increases will cause tuition hikes, while others fear missing too many days of school. On Monday, officers of B.U.'s student union announced they filed a class-action lawsuit demanding reimbursment of tuition for classes cancelled because of the strike...
Firmly committed to action in places like Vietnam and India, the U.S. had only to decide how to act. "There had to be action, the commitment to this was powerful," Galbraith writes. "But if there was to be a remedy, there had to be a cause. If it couldn't be identified, it would have to be invented or assumed." By inventing causes, U.S. foreign policy makers showed they were blinded by their own cultural and economic experience. As a consequence, they matched causes to actions that were politically and economically feasible. Academics and officials therefore took...