Word: march
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mart is going up in Creston, 20 miles away, and Greenfield's merchants fear the worst. Wall Street traders will hail America's richest man, Sam Walton, and his relentless retailing march across the country. But Walton's new store, dropped in a field of asphalt (one of 1,400 in his discount empire) will suck a bit more of the commercial life out of Greenfield and similar towns in the same radius. Another comfortable old building with arched windows and high ceilings may have to be padlocked. Not so long ago they were all open, and the square filled...
...people were killed in March, and Lhasa has been under martial law since then. Demonstrations were reported as recently as last month...
Tuesday's march was noteworthy, however, for its lack of political overtone. Organizer Phillip Martin says he did not even want politicians at the vigil. Although Alan Bell, one of the few conservative Blacks to mount a City Council challenge in recent years, did march at the front of the rally, most other candidates did not attend...
...idea behind the march--and it's an idea that has worked again and again--is that if you can make a strong enough impression, someone's going to notice. Unfortunately, the paltry Harvard contingent probably won't enhance that impression very much...
...member panel concluded 20 months of deliberations Monday by issuing a report calling on the university to establish numerical 10-year affirmative action targets. A Harvard faculty committee issued a similar report on minority and women faculty in March, but it explicitly rejected numerical hiring goals or targets...