Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Living Wage taskforce. The University is expected to respond to janitorial demands for a $10-per-hour wage on Nov. 1. Yet if Harvard's past is any indication, the University will outsource yet another non-educational university function, and the Living Wage Campaign will be handed another defeat. And soon after that a strange thing may happen: without improving the compensation for those who work at Harvard, the University may be able to claim a payroll compliant with the Cambridge Living Wage initiative. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) must make students aware of these machinations and focus attention...
...good defense is the goaltender, and the Bears have one of the nation's best in senior Ali Brewer (1.34 GAA). Brewer, the only netminder in the nation to defeat Harvard last season, earned First-Team All-America honors with her stellar play...
...Crimson went on to defeat Brown and advanced to the finals, where they claimed their first national title. However, Springer was still left wanting...
Dartmouth (1-5, 1-2 Ivy) made the most of its homecoming weekend, however, as the Big Green came back from a four-point halftime deficit to defeat Cornell (4-2, 3-1 Ivy) by the score...
...passage of the treaty would have been a symbol of the U.S.'s continued moral leadership in a hazardous world, it's important not to overstate the impact of it's defeat. "This thing wasn't going to affect rogue states," a U.S. Navy officer says, "or even nations that pretend to comply." It's a little naive to think a militaristic outsider like North Korea would abandon its mighty efforts to develop nuclear weapons simply because the Senate voted a certain...