Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great struggle to right wrongs, fiscal irresponsibility didn't matter, because the city had a clear conscience. So the city borrowed too much money because it could always be paid back later, paid its employees too much money because they were the underdogs of another era and taxed its businesses too heavily because it was good to take from the rich and give to the poor. In the end, everyone lost-out, or left...
...money and votes its proxies. Stevens says "The very fact that this is a public community process is already a position by the Corporation on behalf of its responsibility as a shareholder." But whether the process is a strong enough statement of Harvard's social responsibility is a matter of controversy, especially when it comes to the question of investments in corporations doing business in South Africa...
...Stevens acknowledges that the policies are still a matter of debate. "The question is not whether we have a policy or not, but whether the policy we have goes far enough," he says. Many people, including the hundreds of members of campus organizations and the thousands of students and faculty who have signed petitions demanding the University divest, believe Harvard's policies do not go far enough...
...knows the intricacies of Mr. Joyce. One is called perceptive if he can fathom why Beckett is waiting for Godot, of if indeed Pirandello's characters are really in search of an author or vice-versa. Indeed, one admires Pirandello's technical brilliance and his choice of metaphysical subject matter. Yet if and when one decides that the socio-psychological realism of Toni Morrison is indeed of tremendous literary significance or that Margaret Walker's fusion of history and literature poses some rather interesting questions of epistemological significance, one is told that he/she is not a serious scholar and that...
...three syllables of old Who warhorse "Substitute," bringing a feral edge to Boyce and Hart's familiar "Stepping Stone" and Faces standard "Whatcha Gonna Do About It." These old songs, worn by rehearing and rote performance, take on a new quality, derived from Rotten's conviction that they really matter, at least to him. Sid Vicious contributes two sock-hop numbers--"Something Else" and "C'mon Everybody"--and a rollicking remake of "Rock Around the Clock." Punk rock wants to be fun and these tracks succeed in being just that. As Johnny Rotten once said, "Rock and roll is supposed...