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Word: neutralize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Undergraduate Council's Executive Board this week altered a proposed resolution on next month's support staff union election, striking a clause that asked the University to remain neutral during the vote...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: UC Board Strikes Key Part of Union Measure | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

According to Academics Chairman Todd C. Flynn '88, who also voted to strike the clause, the students who signed the neutrality petition were not really calling on the University to remain completely neutral...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: UC Board Strikes Key Part of Union Measure | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

...want Derek Bok to behave like BossTweed," said Ann Marie Leshkowich '89, presidentof the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats (HRD), one of20 student groups sponsoring the rally. "We wantto urge Harvard to remain neutral during theupcoming campaign [for union election...

Author: By Thomas C. Troyer, | Title: Students Ask for Union Vote Neutrality | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

...Contras also agreed to accept only humanitarian aid from a neutral organization. This would rule out further military aid from the United States, which President Reagan has tried in vain to secure from Congress. U.S. aid ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sandinistas, Contras Agree to Ceasefire | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...treaty is sloppily worded, it is unambiguous on one point: the U.S. has no legal option but to surrender the canal. In 1978, when the U.S. Senate approved the document, an amendment was passed that allows the U.S. to take action to ensure that the canal "remains open, neutral, secure and accessible." But what constitutes a threat to the waterway is not specified, and even if U.S. Marines were dispatched to protect the canal after 1999, it would still belong to Panama. The U.S., of course, could unilaterally abrogate the treaty, but at the cost of shredding Washington's reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About the Canal? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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