Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the faculty members who formally introduced the motion to propose the new language suggested by the undergraduates said they did so not because they endorsed the motion, but because they felt the faculty needed more time to gather information about many of the issues the measure addressed...
...that is exactly what Davis and the nation's other 33,000 caseworkers are required to do. Dispatched into unfamiliar, often dangerous surroundings, they are expected to make instant predictions about tomorrow, based largely on a sixth sense about the data their five senses gather today. Certainly many people outrank them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo...
Lewis, who will be attending an Ivy League policy committee meeting today in New York, said he will not be in University Hall when students gather at 9 a.m. in front of the John Harvard statue, outside his office window...
...Nigeria, when the playwright and other dissidents were hanged. He thought Mandela should have been much more forceful. Whites, too, are generally respectful of Tutu, which makes his selection very defensible." The 17-member Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which includes whites and South Africans across the political spectrum, will gather evidence of abuses by the government but also by anti-apartheid groups, including Mandela's African National Congress...
...AFFRONT TO ALL THE good and decent people of America who have worked so hard for civil rights and racial harmony over the years. It must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. It is incredible that in 1995 a black separatist and avowed racist like Farrakhan can gather hundreds of thousands of men under the guise of atonement and yet hardly receive a ripple of criticism from across the political landscape. All this chatter about separating the message from the messenger is outrageous and disgusting. There is no separating the message this man brings. LUCI SHAW Colonia, New Jersey...