Word: brought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council, rallying freshmen and house committees, brought about an administrative about-face by defeating an administrative plan to impose 25% randomization in some houses...
When Delors arrived in Brussels, the Community had experienced more than a decade of drift, along with some unpleasant jolts brought on by two international oil crises. Even though the establishment of the Community in 1958 had resulted in the removal of some tariffs, Delors found that others still persisted and that customs requirements and manufacturing regulations remained rampant. The new E.C. chief quickly realized that the elimination of such impediments could not be accomplished within one four-year term of office, so he chose the end of the following term, 1992, as the deadline. At the time, Delors...
...which include everything from pizza parlors to car washes; these ads are sometimes in addition to those already inserted by the studios. With the same kind of self-righteous growl a dog utters when a rival approaches his dinner bowl, Paramount, which started the phenomenon with Top Gun, has brought suit in a federal court in Wichita to stop such Johnny-come-latelies...
...That transition was for us...a rather profound experience--that you could have been so brought up to hold a point of view and then see it all crumble...
...council brought the affirmative action effort more in line with the current administrative setup of FAS, and its revisions left student activists predicting more frustration in the future about the University's inability to diversify its faculty...