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Word: movement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, SASC members and others who would like to see an increase in student participation in running Harvard defeat themselves by doing so little to expand their agenda. The most serious problem is not the closed nature of the Board. Rather, it is within the movement itself, in that its members have been inspired not so much by glasnost as by divestment. So long as activists are more concerned about individual issues than openness, the movement can never succeed...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Glasnost at Harvard | 10/1/1987 | See Source »

...movement for openness will require more than the simple synergy of aggregate interests within the Harvard community. Divestment activists must look for more than just divestment, and those who seek input into tenure decisions must want more than just to choose their teachers. If that is all they seek, some momentum within the student movement will inevitably be lost with the satisfaction of each individual cause...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Glasnost at Harvard | 10/1/1987 | See Source »

...because the two French brothers were thefirst in the movement, they established the Frenchas pioneers in the industry, Podheiser said. TheFrench film industry lost its position at thevanguard during the First World War when theGermans devastated the French economy...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Harvard Film Archives To Show World's Oldest Movies In Series | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...think we're too mature as a movement to just go [into a campaign] for symbolic reasons," she added. "I'm grateful she went out there and kind of broke the door down as far as women being considered as serious presidential candidates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schroeder Decides Against Campaign Run | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...prospect of pistol-packing hordes at shopping malls, sporting events and even Disney World has inspired a movement to tighten the loophole before it takes effect. "We want to bring Florida into the 1990s, not the 1890s," says State Attorney General Robert Butterworth, who is spearheading the effort. He has asked Governor Bob Martinez to consider an amendment to the bill during a special legislative session this week. But the Governor has decided to keep the gun bill off the agenda, and it is unlikely legislators will vote to change their handiwork during the regular legislative session in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pistol Packers | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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