Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University at the service of a particular list of candidates for the Board of Overseers, Ms. Bok, the board as a whole, the alumni office and, most importantly, President Bok have shown their fundamental lack of respect for one of the few ways the University community has to express their opinions," said Damon A. Silvers '86, a student prodivestment leader...
...world economy, they are shaking it at the same time. Developing countries from Mexico to Indonesia, which had built their economies and their dreams on oil revenues, now watch in anguish as those hopes of prosperity evaporate. The repercussions could go well beyond economics as those countries express their resentment toward consuming countries, many of which are rich industrial lands. The crisis could inflame tensions in the Middle East, in particular, where oil revenues have dropped from $237 billion in 1980 to an estimated $110 billion last year. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who visited...
...some companies are buying it for 55 cents. Says Joseph Hopkins, a spokesman for Chicago-based United Airlines, which alone saves $20 million a year for every 1 cents fuel-price reduction: "We can take quick advantage of price breaks." Donald Burr, chairman of Newark-based People Express, now the fifth largest U.S. carrier, says that his company is getting "terrific savings." In the first quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge may not result in lower air-fares, since they have already been slashed...
Especially at a university, protection and encouragement must be given to the free exchange of ideas. Such exchanges can certainly express the kind of intense outrage and political imperative which inspired last week's disruption but must not do so in a way that involves direct physical intimidation or that stifles speech...
...take it anymore, they raped me through my rectum. I calculate that in 5 days they raped me 60 times." Imagine this woman were your mother, your girlfriend, your sister, or you. Would you support the "right" of these men to speak in an attempt not merely to express their opinion, but to gather public support for money to continue these and other equally ghastly actions? How much more carnage and suffering must we watch before drastic tactics are justified? I wonder if Katz were to travel in Nicaragua and talk to the families of the victims, whether he would...