Word: hold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every index, students' dissent and frustration over the status quo are more widespread than ever. A poll in the current FORTUNE concludes that 12.8% hold political views that classify them as either "revolutionary" or "radically dissident." The survey also indicates that increasing numbers of other youngsters agree with some of the rebels' ideological positions...
...down hard on radicals who prefer coercion to persuasion and on faculty sympathizers who "should know better." Said Nixon: "It should be self-evident that this sort of self-righteous moral arrogance has no place in a free community. It denies the most fundamental of all the values we hold: respect for the rights of others." Arguing against the rationale of violence, he observed: "Avenues of peaceful change do exist. Those who can make a persuasive case for changes they want can achieve them...
...attribute the dearth of activity to the Administration. It has been slow to formulate a legislative program and reluctant to push hard for the specific requests that it has made. The charge is at least partly accurate. Even before Inauguration Day, it was clear that Richard Nixon intended to hold down expenditures-and hence any new domestic programs-where possible, and to avoid unnecessary clashes with the Democratic-controlled Congress...
...Soviet instigation, a joint draft was drawn up by a committee of eight parties and submitted to a preparatory session attended by 65 parties in Budapest last February. Other parties offered some 300 amendments, at least 100 of which were incorporated in the text. In order to hold a conference at all, the Soviets had to scratch out the old claim, reaffirmed by the 1960 world conference, that they were the leaders of the world Communist movement. Further, they had to delete any critical reference to China or any wording that could be construed as approval of the invasion...
...people at the mass meeting voted to suspend the strike for seven days and then hold a secret ballot on resuming it. The meeting considered a total of five proposal...