Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graduating into the position of de facto curator of the museum in 1973. Gavin promptly took it upon himself to lead the forgotten institution out of exile...
...equally far from rejecting the movement in the style so those she classifies--reaching back to the four years she spent at Radcliffe in the early 1960s--as "women who were never kept out of Lamont. "Any woman who can read and write is de facto a feminist," she says, adding crisply. "Some of them should take a trip to Afghanistan if they want to see what wars are really being fought over...
Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
When the war did break out, I was convinced that we were in a good position to dominate events. Our de facto ally Israel stood to win. Our moderate Arab friends, such as Jordan and Saudi Arabia, though they could not admit it, were nearly as afraid of a victory achieved by Soviet arms as of a defeat of their Arab brethren. From the outset, I was determined to use the war to start a peace process...
...first thing to try was to create one coeducational institution like Harvard/Radeliffe," Collery said. A year and a half of negotiations between Columbia and Barnard attempted to create what Sovern called "de facto" coeducation by increased cooperation between the two schools, the Times article said...