Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eisert is more or less right, of course. But he has the facts of the disciplinary review all wrong. The proposed disciplinary reform would create a body of students and faculty who would hear unusual disciplinary cases, presumably including some of those stemming from political protests...
...hear Marti Brewer tell it, the fact that she made it into the college she wanted is a small miracle. Although a good student, she decided she needed a special summer course to improve her chances. But the counseling office at her high school in Fayetteville, Ark., bungled the course application by reporting the wrong SAT scores. Fortunately she caught the mistake in time. Looking back on her experience from the safety of Rice University, the freshman-in-spite- of- it-all sighs, "Counselors are overwhelmed with duties. They don't know how to help...
...Washington the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa urged that the U.S. press its allies to strengthen economic and political . sanctions against South Africa. That was not what the Reagan Administration had expected to hear from its own committee. The White House set up the twelve-member panel of specialists from business, diplomacy, labor and politics last November in hopes of deflecting congressional pressure for stiff sanctions. Now nine members of the group, including former IBM Chairman Frank Cary and onetime Transportation Secretary William Coleman Jr., indicated in a 72-page report that the Administration's policy...
Midnight had arrived and most of the dinner guests were gone, but on the & terrace of a beige stucco mansion in Johannesburg, a dozen black men and women lingered over coffee and liqueurs, their chairs tightly ringing the table. They spoke with obvious emotion and leaned forward to hear the responses. The focus of their attention, listening more than he talked, was Edward Perkins, the first black U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. For three hours he traded thoughts with civic leaders from Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg...
Aquino quickly sought to assure members of the armed forces that she intends to move decisively against the Communists. First she met with 20 middle-level officers to hear their grievances. She promised, among other things, to create a committee to investigate human rights violations by rebels. Reason: the military has complained that the Communists have not been held accountable for violations they have committed. Aquino made her position clear at midweek during her address before 400 soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo. "Send this message out to all our troops so that none may be misled to relax their vigilance...