Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it has. What terrorism thrives on is doubt; what violence lives off is drift at the center of government. As long as there is doubt about the real future of Ireland, the IRA will have a direct incentive for influencing every move in this fluid process in its favor. Every new proposal is greeted by a new attack, every initiative with an atrocity, every new Minister of State with a publicity coup. The most violence-free periods have been when it was quite clear that no constitutional flux was intended, no change envisaged, no new beginnings proclaimed (ironically under...
...says students should sit quickly and listen politely to these butchers and then--maybe--ask few questions at the end. This comes in the wake of the statement made by some faculty Council members that Adolf Hitler himself would be welcome to come to Harvard and "speak freely in favor of anti-Semitism." (Crimson. 5 April 1983). Harvard's idea of an "oasis of free speech" is nothing but a cesspool for the "Who's Who in Mass Murder," the architects of death squads, racist terror and gas ovens. We in the Spartacus Youth I cague were among...
...After placing a two-year moratorium on construction at the historic site, in keeping with the provisions of the landmark ordinance, the commission reconsidered is decision on October 4. But still confused about the legality of the demolition and faced with a State Building Code Appeals Board ruling in favor of the developer, commissioners postponed a decision until a meeting yesterday...
...corporate ties to their government, to stop doing business with their racist-based society. It is at this critical time that the Harvard Corporation and President Bok have come out not only against Harvard's divestment of stock in companies currently doing business in South Africa, but also in favor of United States corporate involvement in that country...
...BURY the issue but President Bok's October I letter on divestment will certainly go far to define the parameters of debate on this heated topic. In responding to fresh proposals in favor of divestment, Bok offers an eloquent analysis of this morally vexing problem while upholding the University's six-year refusal to sell stock in companies doing business in South Africa. He demonstrates, somewhat convincingly, how a policy of divestment is both inconsistent with the university's role in society and a dubious method of promoting social change in racist South Africa...