Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Atkins, Boston bureau director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said last week the Supreme Court should either "remand or reverse." "Reverse means," Atkins said, "to state without equivocation that, given the historical context, special efforts should be made to compensate for the inequalities of the past...
...Boston College goalies must have thought they were trying out for the role of Custer in "The Little Big Horn." Throughout all but five minutes of the 80 minute context on Saturday the Women's soccer team peppered them with shots from all sides. When the smoke had cleared the statistics told the story: Radcliffe, 52 shots and five goals, B.C. one shot, no goals...
Under a formula still to be negotiated, the cruises will be indirectly included "in the context" of the MIRV limits...
History courses, Rosovsky told the fundraisers, will focus on the historical context of contemporary problems or on topics that illustrate "the complexity of events...
...will soon be settled--both sides are awaiting a report, due within the month, by John T. Howland, a police management specialist called in by the University last May, to suggest ways of improving communication and morale in the force. But Howland will have nothing to say about the context of the negotiations, and he is hardly likely to recommend a return to the low-profile, fatherly-old-guard days. Rather, the issue of change is one that Harvard and the union will have to thrash out at the bargaining table, whenever they choose to resurrect the stalled talks...