Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush, formerly the guitarist for the Harvard cover-band Christian and the Infidels, says that Green Fuse has not played Harvard parties often in the past because students on campus are not always willing to listen to bands that play original music. He hopes that this party signals a change in the musical tastes of students...
...plan shows a willingness on the part of the administration to listen to a student concern and try to address it. By increasing the number of ethnic course offerings from one this semester to five in the future, FAS would boost an academic area it has rarely noticed in the past. Students can only benefit from broadened offerings...
...SWAT chanted and marched while he expressed his views on sexual discrimination is unfair, It was, after all, a rally. The student, Louis M. Green '91 could have drawn me aside and talked to me, but it is presumptuous of him to demand that the entire group stop to listen to his personal views. Surely this does not constitute "arrogance, condescension" or elitism...
...have declared it many times, but ((the Americans)) are not willing to listen. I have repeated that I have accepted 242 and 338 along with all United Nations resolutions. But there is an American policy to neglect the Palestinian people; self-determination is a sacred right for every people except the Palestinians. The self-determination that was one of the main items for the American Constitution. How can this be understood...
Dukakis' political problems stem directly from his stiff-necked refusal to heed the advice of others. Campaign strategist John Sasso was the indispensable man because he possesses the unique ability to prompt Dukakis to listen. Dukakis also failed abysmally in translating his much vaunted administrative skills to the discipline of creating a national campaign; he insisted on micromanaging nearly everything from interviewing political aides to approving scripts of TV spots. The result: insularity and indecision. In addition, Dukakis has failed to inspire loyalty, a quality that Bush prizes, perhaps in the extreme. But at this dour moment in the campaign...