Word: anties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 60 other colleges and universities nationwide that recasts the battle over the "good old causes." Namely, the government is investigating whether the schools--which include the most prestigious in the country--illegally colluded in business arrangements to set tuitions, salaries and undergraduate financial aid that violate anti-trust laws...
...fundamental question returns to this: are the elite universities the ones to judge if they are above the point of the anti-trust laws, i.e. promoting fair and open competition to serve the public...
...Defense. No one has considered academic collegiality in the same league as business combinations since the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed in 1890. Obviously education holds a special place in American society, and the pursuit of knowledge essential to a democracy has no readily tangible--or easily comparable--costs. Thus, investigated university officials say that "cooperation" in financial matters befits their high-minded enterprise, and further serves the overall public good of maintaining access to education independent of cost...
Unfortunately, in attacking Sigma Alpha Mu as a Jewish fraternity, Cohn's arguments hinted anti-semitism and unfairly pre-judged the new organization...
...conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina lambasted the Administration's timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should go in and capture Noriega." Aspin differentiated...