Word: mention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's plans to purchase the building originally spurred controversy because the University did not mention the possibility that it might buy the site in its master plan for development, which the city approved in April...
...true solution to the problem: equality of opportunity. Many observers are asking themselves how Blacks, who make up 75 percent of all welfare recipients, could have taken such a large step backwards given the billions of taxpayer dollars pumped into the cornucopia of programs grouped under welfare, not to mention the preferential treatment of affirmative action...
Harvard did not include its plans to buy 230 Western Ave. in its master plan and did not mention the site during the two years of discussion leading to the master plan's approval in April...
...side issue pro-choicers have generally lost -- government funding of abortions for poor women -- they might even find the opposition more accommodating once the general issue is open for debate and compromise. Right-to-life absolutists will find themselves isolated. Appeals to fairness, not to mention more cynical arguments regarding the cost to society of poor women having unwanted babies, will be more likely to succeed when banning government-paid abortions is no longer virtually the only restriction available to those who think unrestricted abortion is wrong...
...most of the new chapter sounded decidedly familiar. There was no talk of changing the body of law that lies at the heart of South Africa's apartheid. There was repeated mention of "group rights," a code phrase for continuing white control. The black Congress of South African Trade Unions dismissed the proposal as "old formulas." And despite the announced five-year deadline for reform, De Klerk, who is scheduled to take office in September, admitted, "I would not like to tie myself down to a timetable...