Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, the only option for those wishing to express their anger at Harvard's investment policy and to protest its fundraising practices is to give to E4D, which emphasizes the numbers who give rather than the number that they give. In the likely event that Harvard does not divest and apartheid does not end, the money in E4D will be given to Phillips Brooks House to aid its worthwhile endeavors in the Boston area...
...staged a four-day conference in Moscow in April to talk about prospective joint ventures. In a display of Madison Avenue glitz, council members from the U.S. gave their Soviet counterparts a crash course in marketing that included razzle-dazzle TV commercials for Diet Coke, NutraSweet and the American Express Card. Gorbachev invited the U.S. visitors to the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses for a seven-course feast of caviar, pheasant, grouse and other delicacies. After exchanging toasts with the capitalists, the Soviet leader described perestroika as an "invitation" to a business partnership with the West. Said he: "New thinking...
...Harvard heavyweight crew team has a lot of clout these days--sort of like the American Express Card...
...classic" authors provides the product with the kind of elan and credibilty no living writer ever could. And while dead authors are not around to endorse merchandise (Can you picture this: "Hi! My name is Herman Melville, and I never go out on whaling expeditions without bringing my American Express Gold Card...) a quote or a reference easily and elegantly invokes their mystique...
...Palestinians in particular. Simply because we bring attention to Israel's political and human rights violations in the occupied territories does not mean we merit the titles of extremists, anti-Americans sensationalists, or hate-filled people. We are concerned human beings with legitimate grievances which we wish to express, just as Hillel expresses concern over Soviet Jewry, just as the South African Solidarity Committee expresses concern about apartheid...