Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been Prime Minister since 1963, was already trying to parlay that sympathy into a vote of confidence in his gradual program for equality. But when activist demonstrators began joining the protest ranks, extremist groups within O'Neill's Unionist Party reacted violently. Among the first to express its ire was the oligarchic Orange Order, a powerful political-religious society whose members have included all Prime Ministers and virtually every Cabinet Minister in Northern Ireland's history. Like others, it has been particularly skillful in playing on the fears of Orangemen that all Catholics secretly want...
Nixon's step was highly unusual, but he has had experience with this sort of thing. The last time that a Pacific case came up for decision was in 1961, when Vice President Nixon watched Dwight Eisenhower express his irritation over high-altitude lobbying by foreign and domestic airlines. Ike tossed the whole matter back to the CAB for a new version -during his last 24 hours in office...
Many students . . . express the need to legitimize, inwardly as well as publicly, their presence at Harvard while other blacks remain in the ghetto, confronting its problems, bearing its burdens. Herein lies one of the major sources of the demand for courses "relevant" to the black experience. What the black student wants is an opportunity to study the black experience and to employ the intellectual resources of Harvard in seeking solution to the problems of the black community . . . Such educational opportunities would help the black student justify his separation from the larger black community--and would attest that the separation...
...corporation one of the highest-flying issues on the Paris Bourse. Over the past five months, its price has risen from $88 to $120 per share. Investors include Edmond de Rothschild, who owns a 35% interest, and France's Louis Dreyfus Bank, which holds 8%. Last August, American Express Co. paid $2.7 million for a 15% interest in the club and took over as its North American booking agent. An American Express spokesman says that the company expects to increase its stake in Mediterranee in order to get more of "the swingers' market" in travel...
...Mediterranee, which already has 17,000 American members, the American Express tie-in has provided a computerized reservation system and a ready-made U.S. sales organization. Last month, establishing a more tangible toehold in the Americas, the club opened a 140-bed, $1,000,000 ski lodge in Bear Valley, high in California's Sierra Nevada. It also added a 250-bed, $4,000,000 hotel on France's Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...