Word: consented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some committee members charged that Rossi, acting without her co-chair's consent, bought approximately 600 house t-shirts last spring--more than the total number of students in Eliot House. The committee has sold only a small fraction of the shirts, sources said...
Roiphe criticized women who call any sexual encounter that doesn't include explicit consent rape because, she said, this attitude portrays women as constantly in need of protection...
...tacked-on ending seems like an easy way out of the spiral of commotion that the events build up to. It's as if Shue finally agreed to consent and said, "Enough!" But the abrupt change reads more like an easy way out of a fine mess. As the grand finale approaches, all of the characters are running around the room, slopping food on each other, and singing. Their ruckus is ingratiating in small spurts but after a while it becomes annoying theater. Like dupes, they try to mimic the Nerd in the hopes that he'll be repulsed...
Conference participants discussed such human rights violations as discrimination against intravenous drug users, the removal of organs without full consent and genocide in war-torn countries including Bosnia...
...doubts and arguments underscore the immense gamble Clinton was taking in pushing the Haiti confrontation to a crunch. By common consent in Washington, he was risking his presidency on the outcome -- and he would not necessarily win even if Carter and friends could persuade Cedras and friends to depart quietly, or even if a U.S. invasion were to succeed quickly with minimal loss of life. Either development might relieve the immediate crisis but raise the ante for the U.S. to help foster enough of a stable democracy in the unhappy island nation to prove it was not all in vain...