Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour sit-in at Vorenberg's office in May. the Black Law Students Association demanded that Bok appoint Law Professor Derrick Bell to head the school. Bell, who is one of only two Black tenured professors at the school, however, said yesterday that he did not expect to be given serious consideration...
Takeshita, who took office just ten months ago, was credited with doing a highly professional job of soothing his Chinese hosts' tender feelings. In remarks at a banquet given by Premier Li Peng, the Japanese leader volunteered that he would "learn lessons" and "face history." In a speech at the ancient Chinese capital of Xian, Takeshita insisted that the revival of Japanese militarism was a myth. Said he: "We have stuck fast to our stated goal of never becoming a military superpower...
...Reagan years, despite growing concern about huge deficits, the largest peacetime military buildup in the nation's history boosted spending for defense 37% in inflation-adjusted dollars to annual levels of nearly $300 billion. Federal outlays for elementary and secondary education were reduced nearly 20% during the same period. Given that history, perhaps the next President ought to consider assigning the task of shepherding through his education-spending plan to the Secretary of Defense, who has had far more luck in sparing his requests from the budgeteer's ax. There is ample precedent for treating education as a national-defense...
...seem to care less about Walesa's fame than about getting better living conditions as quickly as possible. Admitted Wladyslaw Baka, the Central Committee secretary responsible for economic affairs: "No agreements, no reconciliation, no discussions will help us unless we can achieve visible results in improving our economy." Given the pathetic state of Poland's economy, that will be a difficult task even without the drain of further labor unrest...
...Soviet news agency TASS said Mohmand's main assignments are participating in experiments on the nauseating effects of weightlessness and photographic surveys of his native land. But the images broadcast to the folks back in Kabul suggested that Mohmand was given a larger mission: helping Moscow win friends in Afghanistan as the Soviets withdraw their troops from that divided country...