Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When heads of government gather, of course they are going to talk politics, and these discussions have long since been institutionalized at economic summits; they take place at lunch and dinner and during bilateral meetings between the participants. Reagan fared reasonably well during these talks. The leaders produced a statement applauding the "positive proposals" of the U.S. in the Geneva arms-control talks with the Soviet Union. They also pledged to study new ways to crack down on international traffic in narcotics. That topic arose unexpectedly at dinner Thursday night when Thatcher politely asked the American President about the progress...
...students who took part taken full advantage of these rights, straining the patience of those who do not favor divestiture, by handing out leaflets, holding rallies, shouting through megaphones, setting up tables at all the Houses to gather signatures, occupying Harvard buildings and now assaulting foreign diplomats invited by other student organizations. If they wish to have their rights protected to hold peaceful assembly, they should have the decency to recognize that not everybody agrees with their position and that others have the right to engage in similar yet opposed activities. I suspect, however, that most of those students involved...
...divisions, who intend to hold reunions there. The town council did not disguise its unhappiness with those plans but stressed that it could do nothing because the veterans' groups are legally entitled to meet. In protest, however, the town band has refused to play for the gathering. For their part, leaders of the two SS "old comrades' associations" insisted last week that they were getting together only for organizational reasons, including continued efforts to trace some 150,000 SS troopers missing since World War II. SS veterans' associations have been finding it more and more difficult to meet of late...
Given the chance, the Corporation will bend, waver, and equivocate until and unless students, faculty, and alumni give them no choice but to act on the South Africa issue. When students and faculty gather in Harvard Yard, when alumni give money to the Endowment for Divestiture, the Harvard Corporation listens. When students bring the issue directly to the Corporation offices, they listen harder...
Staying within the college gather to feast likely proved a pleasure before the days of Eggplant Parmesan and Serried Chick Livers. The College rules specifically required stewards (today's over-the-counter servers) to procedure fresh fish as often as possible, which food service officials, say they still...