Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Julie E. Fouquet '80, who introduced the motion, said yesterday it was meant as a compromise measure to allow the Corporation to take a public stand against banks operating in South Africa, without having to admit that banks are "too intransigent" to help promote progressive racial policies in that nation...
...addition to today's motion, Harvard's lawyers have requested an adjudicatory hearing within the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE), and the department has scheduled a prehearing conference on March 10 to decide the ground rules. Lawyers representing Harvard and power plant opposition groups, including local citizen's groups, will attend the conference. The final hearing date has not yet been...
...chosen director, Julian Zimmerman, a mortgage banker who was head of the Federal Housing Administration under President Eisenhower, called for Hunter's resignation on the grounds that Fannie Mae's management had grown aloof and unresponsive to both its own board and the Government. In November a motion to censure Hunter barely lost, by an 8 to 6 vote...
...eliminated criminal penalties for consensual sex between adults. Concurring, Judge Lewis Sutin called intercourse with a young boy "nothing more than sex education essential and necessary in his growth toward maturity and subsequent domestic family life." This was too much for the New Mexico Supreme Court. On its own motion, the state high court last week reversed the appeals court and reinstated Mrs. Favela's indictment. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison plus a $5,000 fine...
When anger rises at his ideas, his persistence, his showmanship, Califano pauses for a while behind his big desk and watches and listens. Often the phone rings, as it did after Califano's statement that people who continued to smoke were "committing slow-motion suicide," and Jimmy Carter says, "Don't worry. What you did was right." Recharged, Joe moves on, determined to make American life a little better than...