Word: hope
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Carter, as he described it to Urban League Director Vernon Jordan when the two clashed publicly over domestic policy last summer, sees himself as the "last hope of the needy." If his welfare plan is any indication, the President is in fact somewhat responsive to the cries of the urban poor, the cries of "We want money!" "We want jobs!" directed towards his car as it moved through the South Bronx...
...pretend to be scientific; I am being subjective. In any case, the number of students here who will stifle expression of their emotions and sexuality for a few years, or even a lifetime, is a cause for sadness and questioning. We must question in the hope of eventually making this world more accomodating for the homosexual who wishes to be homosexual in it. I came to Harvard expecting such an accomodating environment; in fact, that was a criterion for coming here. I expected such an environment because I had assumed that intelligent people, which I have subsequently found Harvard students...
...write this letter to beg students here to consider the rights of the homosexual and make personal decisions concerning those rights. I write in the hope that the future legislators in this school will vote for job rights-gay rights-human rights. I write to encourage those shy or fearful or intimidated gay students here to be homosexual. You can only gain respect. Bryan J. O'Rouke...
Therefore we strongly support efforts in Congress to raise the minimum permissable age of mandatory retirement, in hope that mandatory retirement will be eliminated altogether. American society is badly in need of reforms to provide equal opportunity for women and minorities. But the need for broad reform should not be grounds for continued discrimination against the elderly. It is unclear whether the passage of the bill now in Congress will cripple attempts to implement reforms favoring opportunities for women and minorities, but it is clear that a continuation of mandatory retirement will limit the opportunities of the nation's elderly...
This Tuesday the women in white hope to tune up on Tufts before leaving for Amherst and the New England regionals on Friday. There they will be competing against such perennial tennis powers as Trinity, Williams and Yale...