Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) get all the attention, while he had to keep his so-meticulously-worked-out, delicately-balanced investment policy to himself and the Corporation Fellows? If Bok was to convince the world that he genuinely cared about ethical issues, he needed a media campaign...
...This campaign had to be planned very carefully, though--no direct debates with SASC, mind you, and no need for Bok to think on his feet. He'd tried that crossing the Yard amid hundreds of protestors last year, and all he could do was toss off a "What, Me Worry?" line before University police managed to rescue him from his own students...
China has launched a drive to achieve "the four modernizations"--a campaign which includes plans to reach state-of-the-art world levels in science and technology...
...joining a united Ireland. Mrs. Thatcher's resolve to give no quarter to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists will be stiffened by a personal note: one of her closest political friends and advisers, Airey Neave, was killed by an IRA bomb at the start of the election campaign...
...British can brace themselves for the possibility of bitterness and conflict on a scale hitherto unknown if the Tories carry through on their campaign rhetoric. The United Kingdom's energy self-sufficiency--thanks to North Sea oil--and the Labour government's achievement in paying off Britain's international debts will provide a base for the much-vaunted cuts in income taxes. Many argue that such revenues should be used directly to improve the quality of social services for ordinary people and to finance the modernization of British industry that is so desperately needed...