Word: mulish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...linked investments set up an alternative endowment that would be held in escrow. Harvard would get the money if it divested or if apartheid ended in South Africa. Those active in this Endowment for Divestiture (E4D) argue that donations to the College implicitly endorse the University's immoral and mulish decision not to divest from organizations that do business in South Africa...
...sense, the political rumblings represent a mulish refusal to accept the changes in Western Europe's social fabric. Serious debate has been hindered by rhetoric about immigration, which is all but over, and large-scale repatriation, which is all but impossible. "We haven't come to terms with the fact that black people are really here to stay," says Lawyer Paul Boateng, 32, who was an unsuccessful Labor candidate in Britain's last general election. "We regard black people as immigrants who are transients, or potentially transients. White society wants to believe...
...want the President to be flexible, pragmatic, capable of compromise-also firm, decisive, principled. Carter was hurt by zigzags. Reagan advisers are said to worry about their man being "Carterized" if he compromises too readily. Conversely, many Republican Congressmen worry about his being "mulish." This is a tough one to win. The President should be able to admit error to himself, once in a while out loud. Theoretically, the public confessions could become too frequent, but that is not a real-life danger...
...huge German American into an early and energetic Gray Pantherhood. This is not the Carlo Reinhart of Crazy in Berlin (1958), Reinhart in Love (1962) and Vital Parts (1970). He has been divorced from the vituperous Genevieve-his wife of 22 years-for a decade. His son Blaine, a mulish, asexual hippie ten years ago, is now a three-piece materialist; and blubbery, myopic Daughter Winona has been transformed into an anorectic fashion model. In the past, the world had always been a bit too speedy for Reinhart. He survived marital and fiscal disasters by waddling through the door...