Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of Stone's membership on the Pittston board and of Harvard's ownership of Pittston stock, Harvard is a silent accomplice to Pittston's efforts to break the United Mine Workers. As members of the University, it is our responsibility to express our disapproval with Harvard's complicity. We urge everyone to join the rally today...
...CITES meeting vote to declare the elephant an endangered species, nations can exempt themselves from a trade ban without penalty. That is what the southern African nations have said they will do if a compromise cannot be reached. The real danger is that other countries may also break rank. The more porous the ban, the more the opportunities for illegal trading. Already South Africa and Botswana are on the smugglers' routes. An ambiguous result in Lausanne could embolden the trade and undermine enforcement efforts in Africa. Time is not on the elephant's side. If the slaughter continues...
...fallacy to think there is one theme. Like all ages, it is a time of angels and moping dogs -- after Ralph Waldo Emerson's lines: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
...council has an opportunity to get a fresh start. If it can prove its effectiveness quickly, it might break the vicious cycle of apathy and ineffectiveness...
...Harvard's going to be a game that teeters on the brink--as usual--all the way down the line," Yale Coach Steve Griggs said. "It'll be a break here, a bounce there or one individual effort that rises above the pack that makes the difference. Both teams have players that can do that...