Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fields including feminist literary criticism, post-Freudian psychology, women's history and gender issues--will have to pick and choose from a handful of courses sprinkled throughout various departments. The 50 or more seniors this year in traditional departments writing theses with Women's Studies slants will have to fight it out for the few advisors knowledgeable enough to guide them. And most, if not all, students wanting to design a special Women's Studies concentration will be denied the opportunity--of 30 applicants so far, only one student, two years ago, won official sanction...
...student activists who set Harvard afire in the late sixties had very different attitudes about money and Harvard and protest tactics in general. The students who occupied University Hall on April 9, 1969 arrived with chains and padlocks and placards reading, "Fight Capitalists--Running Dogs." Inside, the students voted not to do any willful damage to the building and to refrain from smoking marijuana while inside. As many as 400 students filled University Hall from the morning until 5 a.m. the next day, when police broke...
...board's hand was forced by a hostile takeover bid by two producers: Norman Lear, creator of the TV series All in the Family, and A. Jerrold Perenchio, promoter of the 1971 Ali-Frazier fight. As principals in cash-rich L.P. Media, Lear and Perenchio had offered $1,000 a share for ENA stock last month. That offer alone was enough to roil the Scripps family: ENA stock had been selling sporadically at only $150 a share two years ago. Late last year, in an attempt to placate family members disgruntled over the stock's performance, Clark bought back...
...Jessica turned their rooms into political statements. Unity covered her walls with swastikas and a portrait of Hitler. Jessica decorated hers with hammers and sickles. They shouted party slogans at each other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until the end of the '50s. In the '60s she became a sudden capitalist success, thanks to her family saga Hons and Rebels and a classic expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death...
...Soviet ASATs can reach only satellites flying in low orbit, a few hundred miles high. Reconnaissance or "spy" satellites are < vulnerable, since they hug the edge of the atmosphere for a closer view of earth, but most early-warning and communications satellites--the ones used to fight a nuclear war--float out of harm's way as high as 24,000 miles. Unless, that is, even more effective satellite killers are developed...