Word: backlashers
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...liberal assault has provoked a conservative backlash, and three speakers introduced this position into the debate. One of them, James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, told the Faculty that the University is endangered by disruption...
...Stanley Pottinger is right: an affirmative action is suffering from a backlash of rhetoric which the University should actively combat...
...Federal Government's program to enforce equal hiring and promotion opportunities for women and minorities on college faculties is "losing ground" to a growing rhetorical backlash from male faculty members and administrators, the director of the Office for Civil Rights said Wednesday...
...smashed, the walls were covered with aerosol-can graffiti; typewriters, books and some 600 paintings were simply stolen. Now that the full extent of the damage has been revealed ($2,280,000 worth, by the Government's reckoning), moderate Indian leaders are outraged and fearful of a backlash that could hurt the entire Indian movement. But it was not only the young militants who debased the old traditions. Anxious to bring the whole shabby episode to an end with as little fuss as possible, the Administration hastily collected $66,650 in "expense money" from various agencies, sent the wampum...
...what began Maggie Smith's defeat. During it, her opponent managed to make her age, 74, a campaign issue for the first time. This fall Democratic Challenger William Hathaway, a four-term Congressman, shrewdly avoided direct attacks on Mrs. Smith's age to prevent a sympathetic backlash, but played up his own age, 48, and his vigor. Another factor: Hathaway, a liberal of the Muskie stripe, had prepared for this election by maintaining high visibility. His 6 ft. 3 in. figure was seen everywhere around the state, and his flair for publicity got him frequent radio and newspaper...