Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, first important demand for complete independence. March 17. British General Sir William Howe evacuates besieged Boston and sails for Halifax to await reinforcements...
...there are going to be a lot of questions on that," Reagan told grimacing aides hustling him off to the bunkers to await the fallout. He won his bet. Screeched a San Francisco Chronicle headline: REAGAN WOULD SEND GI'S TO AVERT RHODESIA WAR. Hastily, the candidate began to backtrack: "I made the mistake of trying to answer hypothetical questions with hypothetical answers." When that did not float very high, Reagan began to pass off his suggestion as in keeping with current U.S. policy: "The same thing we've been doing in the Middle East." Then he became...
Harvard's plans for RSKU assume that students will study conditions in Iran, engaging in research and conducting interviews. The case of Vida Tabrizi suggests these are not realistic expectations and that potential RSKU students await her fate. Harvard students and faculty in Iran would learn that the Shah is not anxious to eliminate the nation's massive poverty or reduce its 65-per-cent illiteracy rate (the government's own statistics). Wouldn't Harvard only be training the future Vida Tabrizi's of Iran...
...union-busting methods. Claiming no "outsider" (read: union) is needed to resolve labor-management conflicts, managers hold "rap sessions" with employees, ostensibly to understand their grievances. Actually, Hamburger Central directs managers to heed complaints only as a clue to which employees have unionizing sympathies. Tricky lie detector tests await the bad burgers...
...change in the award definition has left it up to the University to allocate the money to the Advocate, the Signet Society and Phillips Brooks House. The groups now await President Bok's decision on the allocation of the money...