Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TFAA and AA. As the Task Force views it, key struggles for building the student movement must be 1) the opposition to the attacks on AA (the test case being at Harvard for the rest of the nation), 2) the determination of a replacement for Walter Leonard and formal, direct input into the AA structure of this University, 3) the demand for a new AA plan, 4) development of the struggle for greater recruitment, admissions and financial aid programs, 5) self-determination of the Afro-Am. Studies Department and finally, 6) the creations of Chicano-Boricua, Native American, Asian American...
...accept no more than a 5% increase. That, Yamani explained, would effectively freeze present market prices, which have crept above OPEC's "marker" prices as oil companies stockpiled supplies in anticipation of a big oil-price increase. The real bargaining sessions switched from the formal banquet hall to half-a-dozen or so smoke-filled suites where the various oil ministers were trying to strike deals and line up support. At 2 a.m. on Friday, Valentin Hernándes, the amiable Venezuelan oil minister, telephoned waiting reporters to inform them that OPEC had agreed to disagree...
Carter has ruled out formal wage-price controls and his advisers seem opposed even to voluntary guidelines that would set numerical standards. What kind of wage-price policy does that leave? Okun suggests a series of "prayer meetings" at which Administration officials will urge business and labor leaders in general terms to make sacrifices for the sake of noninflationary growth. He also forecasts a highly informal "prenotification" standard−a request that businessmen and labor leaders inform the new President privately of planned wage and price hikes and discuss their justification in advance. Pechman, director of economic studies at Brookings...
Oldsmith falls hard for Flynn's daughter Rosa (Barbara Parkins), who nurses him through a bout of malaria. Rosa tells her father she is pregnant at about the same time that Oldsmith makes a formal request for her hand in marriage. "What!" splutters the indignant father. "You ask for her hand when you've had everything else!" Of course there is a terrible fight, followed, in rough sequence, by a wedding, the birth of a daughter and the start of the first World War, which finds Flynn and his new family involved in fresh adventures, none more credible...
...hidden by the murky wavelets, the head has a dreaming, apparitional quality, a look reinforced by the waving tendrils of hair. Yet nothing about the photograph invites one to read it as a narrative of emotion. The camera's rendering is exceedingly spare, fastidious in its detachment. Its formal rigor-down to the last rhyme between the wet locks and their paler shadow on the water's wrinkled skin-is intimidating. This Midwestern naiad, one realizes, is Callahan's Mona Lisa...