Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another member suggests a House referendum, which other members counter by pointing out that gives the apathy of Adams House students, they would fail to get a worthwhile turnout on the issue. Someone suggests taking a voices vote in the dining hall right then and there, but it is shouted down by the prevailing fear that such a practice "would make the House Committee look silly." After a half hour of debate, the dozen in the small dining room vote to go ahead with the purchase...
...responsibilities and withdraw our tacit sanctioning of organizations whose structure stands in contradiction to these principles. It is not possible to ignore association with groups whose membership is drawn from our community this would deny that our opinions and actions have an effect on our friends. We should not fail to acknowledge that the inherent values fostered with these clubs out-live our four years as undergraduates. Geoffrey Bok '84 Renata Villers '85 Stephen Selipsky...
...industry is preventing "Cambridge residents from having any say on the matter of what sort of programming rules and services will come into our city." Responsiveness to these types of issues is essential to the cable industry: like any business, if the customers aren't satisfied, the enterprise will fail...
While official University statements have addressed the problem of perceived discrimination, they fail to confront any real racism that may exist on campus, Freeman said...
...other times unwisely and inappropriately. Clearly a goal of public policy should be to decrease its unwise or inappropriate use. The problem is that it is precisely this failure to acknowledge the use of force to maintain order and settle disputes that has caused many police executives to fail to manage the use of force effectively. What concerns me is management of the use of force in all aspects of police work--order maintenance and dispute settlement, as well as law enforcement. That was the theme of my lecture...