Word: informing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience of the last ten years, largely, which seems to inform the Public Interest conservatives' viewpoint. As members of the government and influential social scientists, many of them constructed and supported the anti-poverty and welfare programs and the Vietnam policy which led to popular revulsion. More importantly, the government of the '60s was headed, for the first time, by conscious elitists--Bundy, the Rostows, McNamara, and Ball, many of whom the essayists in the Public Interest cite in their papers and served with on faculties. Rather than admit the failure of elitist political leadership cut off from vulgar opinion...
...ball threatens to become an annual fixture--but COYOTE's year-round focus is not on wild parties. Its members are dedicated to improving the adverse conditions which prostitutes now endure. Representatives inform hookers of legal rights that are often denied them in police headquarters and courts. They provide bail, emergency housing and child care; help to find jobs for ex-hookers; file suits to protest the treatment of those still in the profession; and bring the pertinent issues to the attention of nationwide audiences and legislators...
...President then reported to the Faculty on the new procedures to be followed in the event of a faculty member's death. For some years, a black-bordered death notice was circulated to all University faculty informing them of the death of a colleague. That practice had been discontinued. President Bok recognized that some members of the Faculty might object to this decision, and he assured members that, although not sending out the cards would save a few thousand dollars, this economy should not prevail against strong sentiment in favor of continuing the practice. The President then went...
...DIFFERENCE between Special Section and Costa-Gavras's early masterpiece Z is the difference between being upset and being enraged. The earliest work is a classic in the genre of political filmaking. Its importance is explicit, topical; its purpose to instruct, inform, and hopefully, to change. In Z the ugly, brutal face of fascism is an easy target for the audience's hatred. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras' latest film seems to have political intentions and somehow means to help us form a social opinion. Ultimately it does neither. Its topic of justice and collaboration in the Vichy regime is 35 years...
...likelihood" that they are involved in violent and illegal activities. The directive would also prohibit the FBI from trying to discredit or disrupt the organizations unless there was no other way to eliminate "an immediate risk to human life." Under the draft guidelines, the FBI would have to inform the Attorney General of all domestic security probes; in turn, he would be required to halt any investigation that failed to meet the written standards...