Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolution asking President Washington to proclaim a day in which the people might acknowledge, "with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God." There was immediate opposition. Congressman Thomas Tucker, wary of the threat of Big Government, declared that the House "had no business to interfere in a matter which did not concern them." Added he: "Why should the President direct the people to do what, perhaps, they have no mind...
Right up until Election Day, an unprecedented proportion of voters remained undecided-and then made up their minds on the basis of personality or on one inflammatory issue like abortion. "Large numbers of voters are saying that it doesn't matter which party the candidate belongs to," observes Caddell, "and he can't solve the problems anyway, so personality is predominant. You can see that in the great number of negative 5 campaigns directed by one candidate 2 toward another, and that's the toughest thing to follow...
Gaza is another matter. Egypt administered it from 1948 until 1967, when the Israelis captured it, along with the Sinai. Thus Sadat proposed that the Egyptians and the Israelis agree to a time limit for negotiating self-government for Gaza, and that Israel allow the Egyptians to maintain civil order there until local governments have been established. Sadat thought it possible that some Gaza leaders could be persuaded to join the talks. He also believed that if a Gaza settlement could lead to West Bank negotiations, then perhaps Hussein and some of the West Bankers might be willing to participate...
What was far more important than the ebb and flow of people in the room, at least to this observer, was the fact that no one in the Faculty challenged Professor Rivers' (and her committee's) conclusions about the need for improvement, or, for that matter, the means for implementing improvement. None of the notorious anti-teaching people stood up to protest the misguided liberalism of the report, the needless expense of the teaching center it proposes, the impossibility of adhering to its recommendation that teaching be a major criterion for tenure...
...trouble came when I tried to put the pack back on. One arm wouldn't move. No matter how hard I tried and concentrated it remained immobile and useless. And the other couldn't bend enough to be of any use. Meanwhile I'd started to shiver uncontrollably--the first symptom of hypothermia. I jumped up and down trying to keep warm. I couldn't laugh, the irony was too bitter--I'd made it across the stream, but to what...