Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RECENT SUNDAY afternoon about 150 students gathered in Harvard Yard to express their support for affirmative action and its attendant quota systems. During the course of the rally one dissenter stood alone. Howard Jonahs '78 held a sign proclaiming "Affirmative Action is Unjust" on one side and "Hire on Merit" on the other. Although Jonahs says he received threats and taunts from members of the crowd, he surely represented a much larger segment of the Harvard community than was apparent that day. Even more important, Howard Jonahs was right...
...last February, and other arson attacks have damaged the opera house, two film studios, a sports complex and the laboratory of Tbilisi's Agricultural Institute. The incidents, complained the Georgian party's Central Committee, were the work of "carriers of the evils of the past, striving to express their dissatisfaction in a most infamous fashion...
Better still, the economists no longer express much fear that the recovery will fizzle out in 1977. They expect output to grow, and unemployment and inflation to decline, through next year as well. Their worst worry is a long-range one: that some time around the end of 1977 basic industries will run into shortages of capacity that would cause inflationary bottlenecks and also prevent the unemployment rate from dropping below 6% of the U.S. labor force...
...express reservations about the Vietnam...
...undersigned, all of whom have worked over the years to assist in the development of the minority student program of the Harvard Medical School, take this opportunity to express our satisfaction with, and commendation of, the program. We shall continue to give our enthusiastic support to the program, and we encourage the Faculty to take steps to maintain its excellence...