Word: consultations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plunking down another buck. In fact, she raised her weekly total bet from 60 to 100 tickets. And, wonder of numbers, she hit again last week, this time for nearly $1.5 million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds of 17.3 trillion to 1. Both of her winning tickets were purchased at the 7-Eleven store in Point Pleasant that her fiance owns and she has managed for the past decade. Adams was back at work...
...members of the Boston Union of Black South Africans and the Harvard students protested the program for about an hour, charging that Harvard did not adequately consult Black South Africans about the implications of the internship program in that racially torn nation...
...failing to consult Black South Africans the Steiner Committee acted exactly like the "nationalist government of South Africa by undermining efforts by Blacks to direct their own destiny in questions that directly affect them," said Moses Nkondo, a visiting scholar in Currier House and one of the five speakers at the rally...
...mess became public last week when theSouthern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), apro-divestment student group on campus, released areport charging that the internship program was"structurally flawed" because the Universityfailed to consult with Black South Africans"representng real political constituencies" whensetting up the program...
Rather than debating, "Is this a political or a student issue," debate two things: the merits of the issue, and whether the council can do something about it. The council should consult constituents; take a referendum if necessary. Then vote and move on. The Council was intended to actively work for students, not to get bogged down in technicalities...