Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who do believe that adopting a gender-neutral policy is right were not debated; they were dismissed as blind followers of what is "in." The more earnestly the belief is held, the less influence it holds. It is met with condescending amusement, the derision of the critic who is certain that one's (not necessarily his) mind is independent. To be above such petty demands is to be a rebel. The rest are merely the herd...
Except for one open meeting this fall, the panel has done its investigation behind closed doors. Wolcowitz says that the group met with department heads, administrators and representatives from student groups in conducting its investigation...
Last fall some members of the Undergraduate Council's residential committee met with Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 and voiced a concern that turning the heat down at 11 p.m. did not match the students' working hours. After an investigation of the heating policy, the council's Committee on House Life agreed to the change, Dingman said...
During the Atlanta convention, he had 20 telephone lines in his hotel suite. At least twice a day, he met with the Dukakis camp, using a three-page game plan he had hammered out with Jackson and his entourage during an all-night session in Nashville the Friday before the convention opened. A menagerie of Jackson hangers-on and media executives produced a constant din of demands on his time. Through it all, Brown moved at his amiable pace, never snapping. He shows the same style as he travels in pursuit of the chairmanship amid the crisp flutter...
POLAND Never Say Never In a surprise move, the regime proposes legalizing Solidarity The turnabout was breathtaking. As the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party met in Warsaw last week for an often bitter session that lasted until 3 a.m. the second day, General Wojciech Jaruzelski and several of his top aides threatened to resign unless the party approved a resolution paving the way for legalization of the outlawed Solidarity trade union. This was the same Jaruzelski who cracked down hard on Solidarity and spearheaded its outlawing after he proclaimed martial law in 1981. At stake in the remarkable...