Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Handbook for Students also devotes a page-and-a-half to a discourse on the evils of discrimination, including sexual discrimination. It expects students to "exhaust institutional routes for complaints before seeking legal redress under public law." Yet the University did not fulfil its moral obligation to fight discrimination by failing to endorse Lisa Schkolnick's legal complaint against the Fly Club when her options here were closed...
...victory speech, Sen. Kennedy touted his liberal agenda. "I'd like to believe that tonight this victory is a victory for students that are concerned about quality education," he said. He also pledged to fight for maintaining Social Security benefits and enacting a universal health care program...
...fight isn't over yet," said labor expert Charles Hecksher yesterday. "Negotiating a first contract is often as difficult as organizing for an election. There is a real opportunity for both sides to rebuild unity within the staff, if people really develop the theme, 'It's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union...
...manufacture and sale of cheap handguns. But even as Governor William Schaefer signed the new bill into law, the gun lobby was collecting the 33,000 signatures necessary to put it to a referendum next Tuesday. The result is the most expensive election campaign in Maryland history, a fight that pits the National Rifle Association against many of Maryland's leading politicians...
...year they face 29 items that would do everything from cut auto-insurance rates to raise cigarette taxes. But none of the lot has aroused greater emotion than Proposition 102, which would abruptly shift the state away from the policies that have put California in the forefront of the fight against AIDS. It would make compulsory what has always been voluntary: the reporting and tracking of people who have had intimate contact with carriers of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS...