Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Circulation of a petition among professors, graduate students, and undergraduates asking for courses similar to Social Relations 149, to discuss what role science should play in today's society...
Ayub's most significant move, however, was his offer to discuss constitutional reform with the opposition in the Democratic Action Committee, a loose alliance of eight conservative parties that have been promoting the anti-government campaign. Their demands include a return to the parliamentary system under which Pakistan was ruled before Ayub's bloodless takeover in 1958 and also the abolition of the present presidential election system. Within that Ayub-inspired framework, the President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus...
...handle Pristeen, a group of male copywriters went to work, but their efforts did not quite capture the right girl-to-girl tone. The agency then turned to Peggy Prag, a late-thirtyish creative supervisor who spent six months devising the current approach. Though she found that she could "discuss the vaginal area just like automobiles or detergents" in agency conferences, her own copy clung to euphemisms, at least at first. Market research, including a nationwide survey of 1,200 women, showed that customers care little for the coy approach. As Copywriter Prag puts it: "Women interviewed said, 'Just...
...this particular instance, the instructor in charge of the course, believing that a serious misinterpretation had occurred, was in fact willing to discuss the substantive issues raised by the objectors to the proposed case-study. Subsequent discussions between Dr. Breuning and the students were at times tense, but fundamentally responsible and constructive...
...intrusion into the classroom cannot be condoned. Dr. Breuning's willingness to seek a positive solution, and the students' willingness to discuss their disagreement in good faith have substantially mollified the impact of the original event. The incident has served to elicit a clear statement of University policy in an area of fundamental importance which can now serve as a guideline to all members of the Harvard community should further events of a similar nature ever arise...