Word: lents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easily. He ran on a platform that abandoned the Republican Party's traditional support for the Equal Rights Amendment. He enraged working women when he suggested that part of the nation's unemployment problem was owing to the increase of women in the work force. He consistently lent support to the effort to make abortion illegal. The depth of women's resentment on that issue alone was dramatized in San Antonio at a lunch at which Republican Senator Robert Packwood was praised for his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Some women suddenly found themselves weeping...
...ACSR has had no influence on the Corporation, but has only deflected student from the board. In fact, it was massive student protests in 1978 that forced the only change in University policy on investments in South Africa. The Corporation said then that Harvard would divest from banks that lent money directly to the apartheid regime. The ACSR, on the other hand, has tried without any success to force the University to sell shares in companies whose South African operations fail to meet the Sullivan Principles, minimum wage, and fair labor standards. Earlier this year, it tied on a vote...
...Mass.), a member of the Senate ad hoc monitoring group on Southern Africa, is a sponsor of the organization and has worked closely with Carstens in the past. At Carsten's suggestion, Tsongas and other members of Congress "adopted" political prisoners in South Africa to whom they corresponded and lent moral support...
...make life tougher for the pirates, film studios are now keeping closer track of finished features. Prints are no longer routinely left overnight in screening rooms. When new films are lent to studio executives for private showings, a guard often goes along. Yet the thefts continue. Says one Hollywood public relations man: "If you know someone at a studio, you can get about any film you want...
...brought her a single red rose when he picked her up. An upperclassman who had known Richard at St. Martin's had lent him his rooms in an upperclass house, a suite, which was safer and more relaxing than where Richard lived, where the presence of any woman at all was strictly forbidden. There was a bottle of chilled champagne and a copy of the Kama Sutra...