Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose of the invitation was two-fold: first, translating English into Ukrainian probably is an interesting problem, at least for specialists. But more importantly, the department sent the invitation in the hope of helping Karavansky's situation. Karavansky could use some help; he has spent nearly 30 of his 59 years in Soviet jails as a political prisoner...
...been working all our lives in the cotton mills, and you can't take no more. I just wish they'd get somebody up there that's got some sense to run the mill without trying to push the help to death." --Lillian Harrell, J.P. Stevens worker...
Proceeds from the campaign will help fund faculty salaries, student financial aid, educational programs like the Core Curriculum, building renovations, and other undergraduate activities. Faculty officials stress that most of the money will support College activities, and that the campaign will not fund many new programs but rather protect existing ones from inflation...
...national problems are not failings of the system or unfortunate deviations from the norm, and electing another Kennedy on a white horse will not help. When the system works perfectly--business as usual--the poor, the powerless, minorities get screwed. The left should realize it has little future in presidential politics and throw itself into community organizing...
...counterargument declares that willing intercourse implies acceptance of a possible pregnancy--that in effect you invited the stranger in, that you knew what you were in for and that he now has the right to demand your help. But faulty contraception is like a broken window. When you return to your suite and find your stereo missing, do you accede the thief's right to take it because your window is easily pried open? The abortion issue thus forces a clarification of the nature of the individual and his social rights. Although we may feel morally constrained to protect...