Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grodzins said that the banner movement started in 1983, when over 50 pro-freeze groups--like the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the National Freeze Campaign in St. Louis--decided to approach their cause in a new way. "These groups saw the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings as a compelling event," she explained, "We see that, 40 years later, we've still made no breakthoughs...
...events as BSA students. We have always invited the leaders and members of the BSA to our activities, just as we have invited the leaders of the American Indians at Harvard, the Harvard Radcliffe Asian American Association, RAZA, Hillel, the Crimson, the Independent, the Student Council, the Christian Fellowship, and other groups...
Atsumi, the former publisher of the Japanese magazine The Feminist: Asian Women, went to the U.S. after she was awarded a fellowship to Radcliffe. When she later sought work at the electronics companies around Boston, she was startled to find how little many American executives seemed to know about Japan. Says she: "They know they have a lot to learn, but because they're so busy, they want some kind of instant pill to learn...
...Fellowship winners, often second year researchers at the center, have worked in such areas as failures of children's immune systems against diabetes and origins of cardio vascular problems contributing to diseases of the liver...
...When the fellowship stipends began in 1981, they were relatively well-paying in comparison to other research grants, according to Maratos Fliet. But they have since slipped to the lower end of the scale, she said...