Word: hearings
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...member of both the Naval ROTC and Harvard communities, I have had the opportunity to hear many different opinions about the Undergraduate Council's ROTC resolution. Many people are making some solid arguments for and against an on-campus ROTC program. I must argue, however, that neither the Undergraduate Council nor Harvard University should endorse the various ROTC programs...
Many people hang up when they answer the phone and hear a computerized voice, figuring it is probably a prerecorded sales pitch. Not the folks in Osage, Iowa. Their police department pays for a telephone-dialing computer service that automatically checks up on older people who live alone. At the same time every day, the computer calls them and says, "Good Morning! Are you O.K. ?" If they answer "Yes," the computer hangs up and goes on to the next number. If no one answers, the computer alerts the police...
...power. In a scene never witnessed in the 40 years of Communist rule, more than 1,000 students assembled outside the ornate red-lacquered gate of Zhongnanhai compound, where the top leaders officially live and work. Sitting on the pavement, lotus-like, they exhorted Premier Li Peng to hear their demands, chanting, "Come out! Come...
This week a Supreme Court refashioned by Ronald Reagan will hear arguments in William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a case that could lead to Roe's being seriously weakened or even reversed. Either outcome would mean a new world, one in which abortions could be banned in many states or made greatly more difficult to get. After years in which court dictates let politicians dodge the whole roiling issue, abortion would be forced back into the political arena. Back to state legislatures and referenda. Back to lawmakers and voters...
...leader of the government and he should hear all the views of the citizens," he said...