Word: marches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afro-American Studies department now exists at Harvard, thanks to strike activism. But the department has been inadequately supported by the administration, and its professors have often been denied tenure. And in a recent New York Times article ("Harvard Accused of Lag on Minority Hiring," March 5), a panel of faculty members reported a poor record on hiring of women and minority faculty. According to Lawrence Watson, co-chair of the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators at Harvard, "If Harvard as the premier institution that trains the best and brightest is a place that is absent of the best...
...commercial first played on March 2, showing Madonna travelling back to her eighth birthday. The problem for Pepsi was that a day later the "new" Madonna aired her "Like a Prayer" video which portrays a young girl struggling with feelings of guilt and sexuality. The video also contains religious imagery that some Christians found offensive...
Hazelwood appeared to be in control of himself when he boarded the Exxon Valdez Thursday night, March 23. But when his blood was tested fully nine hours after the ship ran aground, he had a blood-alcohol level of .06, higher than the .04 the Coast Guard considers acceptable for ship captains. Assuming he drank nothing after the accident and his body metabolized at the normal rate, Hazelwood's level at the time of the accident was about .19, almost double the amount that causes a motorist to be judged drunk in many states. Exxon fired Hazelwood after...
...Arthur Hochstein (Deputy Art Director); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Jennifer Napoli, Billy Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, Stefano Arata, James Elsis, Carol March, Kenneth B. Smith (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: John P. Dowd (Traffic); Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Victoria Nightingale, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Eugene Tick, Dennis Wheeler Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...According to a TIME poll of more than 1,000 Moscow residents, Mikhail Gorbachev's approval rating stands at 79%. Buoyed by the success of his U.S. visit, Gorbachev enjoyed a popularity rating of 92% in December. By March, those who expressed doubts climbed from 5% to about 12%, reflecting the reality of shortages and dissatisfaction with the progress of perestroika...