Word: enormouse
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The most dramatic protest is in California, where 1.5 million people have signed petitions and forced a statewide vote to be held June 6 on Proposition 13, the so-called Jarvis-Gann initiative. If approved, Jarvis-Gann would force all property to be reassessed at the market value that prevailed...
Although the stated goal--to actually hold the site and stop construction--was not achieved, the action was universally seen as an enormous success. Almost overnight opposition to nuclear power became perhaps the most potent protest movement in the country, with at least 20 alliances, patterned after Clamshell, springing up...
The recent student demonstrations against Harvard financial ownings in South Africa-affiliated companies only touch a symptom of a more profound problem. That is, is it justifiable for a university with a $1.6 billion endowment to invest most of that enormous endowment in stocks, while continuing to charge students ever...
It is frequently said that students' tuition fees do not cover the price of a Harvard education, and that therefore students shouldn't complain about having to pay $4000 or $5000 per year. But this argument ignores the fact that the Harvard Corporation could use more of its enormous endowment...
State universities, by contrast, typically charge annual tuition fees in mere hundreds of dollars. Can there be that much of a difference in the quality of education at such schools, versus that at private schools such as Harvard? While it is true that state schools receive grants from state governments...