Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot think that this can do Harvard any good. University faculties are rightly loyal to diversity and to a colleague's right to say and do unpopular things. But Professor Harberger is not yet a colleague of anyone on the Harvard faculty. So the Harvard faculty must think about other things to which universities and their faculties are loyal: open-mindedness, civility and thoughtful discussion and resolution of intellectual issues. Harberger insists that he is loyal to these things, too, and it seems hard to doubt his sincerity on the matter...
...piled up at the port of Kompong Som and at Phnom-Penh, there is no proof that Hanoi or Phnom-Penh is deliberately obstructing delivery. Distribution delays appear to be due to the lack of Cambodian administrators, the shortage of transportation, and continued fighting between the Vietnamese and forces loyal to the deposed Pol Pot regime...
...ought to increase the tolls on all roads leading into the state from Massachusetts," quips Maine Secretary of State Rodney Quinn. "We could solve all of Maine's revenue problems." As a loyal supporter of President Jimmy Carter, Quinn is exaggerating the number of buses that are hauling volunteer workers for Senator Edward Kennedy into the state-but not by much. Both Carter and Kennedy are pouring money and manpower into a campaign that unexpectedly is shaping up as an important test of the Senator's ability to recover from his shattering defeat in Iowa...
Another problem confronting Soames was the fragility of the six-week-old ceasefire. Though some 21,600 guerrillas have reported to 14 assembly points, the truce is marred almost daily by sporadic clashes and acts of banditry and lawlessness. British authorities attribute most of the violations to ZANU guerrillas loyal to Mugabe, several thousands of whom remain at large or wander in and out of the camps at will. The 1,200 Commonwealth troops monitoring the cease-fire seem powerless to stop them...
...large in the bush. There have been at least 38 confirmed cease-fire violations and 158 deaths since the agreement took effect on Dec. 21. British officials say Nkomo's ZIPRA forces appear to be honoring the truce far more scrupulously than the more numerous ZANLA troops loyal to Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's co-leader in the now divided Patriotic Front alliance...