Word: fait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are the kinds of stories that leave Harvard administrators and tenants feeling uncertain about their futures. Changes are kept secret, until they are finalized and then presented as a fait accompli. But like any other story, there are two sides to explain the new Harvard Real Estate Corporation. Wyatt declines to say that Harvard has managed its real estate holdings poorly, accumulating large deficits and creating communication problems with tenants. He does says that a corporation, a centralized bureaucracy, can better deal with the unique kinds of problems which arise in the real estate business. Wyatt explains that...
...nature of the peace which Israel today says she wants to secure is nothing in effect but a new attempt to thwart the establishment of peace-a ruse to help her gain time so as to impose a fait accompli, in the short term by having Israeli settlements established on the occupied Arab land (which she does at present) and in the long term by resolving the current conflict between American and Israeli interests when, in the fullness of time, the energy crisis is itself resolved...
...international guarantees you might require" through the two superpowers, one superpower or a collection of powers. He admitted that the Arab states had rejected Israel in the past, refusing to meet its representatives. "Yet today we agree to live with you," he said. "Israel has become a fait accompli recognized by the whole world...
...district courtroom last Monday to file a nolo contendere plea to two misdemeanor counts against Helms for failing to testify fully before a Senate committee four years ago, Bell at that moment was informing President Carter of his "just and fair disposition" of the case. Confronted with a virtual fait accompli, Carter hastily gave Bell his consent, and the four-year-old Helms investigation came to an abrupt...
...first began. Yet as schools open around the country, there is encouraging evidence that Chicago's tensions-if not its desegregation problems-are far from typical. For a variety of reasons, busing is no longer education's most controversial issue. Many cities have accepted it as a fait accompli either from sheer fatigue, distraction over declining educational standards, or because in some places busing has worked better than expected...