Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not at all clear. Such a position irresponsibly overlooks the distinct possibility that the gay student may indeed be guilty of provoking the incident by sexually harassing the other man. To be sure, had the incident involved a man stroking a woman's behind after she had repeatedly told him to go away, there would have been few "progressively-minded" supporters for the man--even had the woman's friends pushed the man around, as happened at Mather...
...Planet (1970) and The Dean's December (1982), and his new heroine's thoughts will not heal those old wounds: "These people came up from the tropical slums to outsmart New York, and with all the rules crumbling here as elsewhere, so that nobody could any longer be clear in his mind about anything, they could do it." But Clara is here ruminating in anger and the natural resentment of a victim. In calmer moods, she can recall listening to Teddy Regler talk about the decline of civilization and privately disagreeing: "I don't actually take much stock...
...explanations it wished on how the members had made up their minds, then cast their votes. All along, Tower's fate in the committee had depended on Nunn's own decision. As the Senators debated Tower's strengths and frailties during the three-hour executive session, it was clear that Nunn would not accept the nominee...
...appearance of sluggishness overseas was compounded at home when the Federal Reserve Bank raised the discount rate a half point, to 7%. The move was a clear sign that the Fed, frightened by recent indicators, does not believe the new Administration's rosy assertion that inflation can be held in check without higher interest rates...
...only thing clear about the whole affair is that by jumping rashly into the fray, Defeat Homophobia dealt its cause a worse blow than any vicious homophobe could have dared hope. Worse, what followed the incident seems to many to be a concerted effort by Defeat Homophobia and a prominent group of Mather students to obscure the issue, and to prevent discussion of the actual incident around which they had built their publicity machine...