Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University should accede to all of these demands. All of us who work and study here should join the protesters in the shadow of the tower to support divestment and to attempt to close the gap between the Corporation and the community...
Between demonstrations at the two focal points demonstrators marched through downtown Boston, distributing leaflets, chanting, and encouraging passersby to join them. The group from Harvard marched behind a banner reading "Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Central America...
...polished and personable campaigner, the younger Kim seems less charismatic and shrewd than Kim Dae Jung and, having % suffered less at the hands of the government, does not command such public sympathy. As a protest against his colleague's political banning, he too refused for a long time to join the N.K.D.P. With both Kims working behind the scenes, the party fell into the less commanding hands...
...become an ace photojournalist. He is Henry Squires (Kevin Kline), who has inherited his family's newspaper and the usual passel of burdens: wife, child, civic duties. They were lovers once, and become lovers again when she returns home for a vacation. Will he accept her invitation to join her in the jet streams and write her captions? Or is he going to stay put and continue the good fight to keep his small pond ecologically sound, his nice nuclear family unsplit...
...sparked last October by the demotion of Harry Porterfield, a black newsman who co-anchored WBBM's 6 p.m. weekday program. The station moved Porterfield to weekend anchor chores to make room for the returning Bill Kurtis, a former WBBM anchor who had left his post in 1982 to join the CBS Morning News. When the disaffected Porterfield was wooed by rival WLS-TV, WBBM offered to boost his salary to $300,000. After WLS again raised the ante, reportedly to a five-year contract worth more than $2 million, Porterfield opted to join WLS as a reporter and substitute...