Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fatigue jackets. Yasser Arafat has worn a kaffiyeh, usually with army duds, for 20 years now, and the scarf became a garment of choice among the political protesters and antimissile advocates of the '70s and early '80s. Fashion, of course, mutes political reverberation. With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some of its freshness. But the current televised spectacle of kaffiyeh-wearing rebels playing hob with the Israeli army gives the scarves an odd, often ironic resonance when they are worn in the West. Visual continuity suggests a political solidarity that usually comes as a big surprise...
Officially Baker is neutral in this race. Actually he is on the phone constantly with the Vice President, his friend of 30 years. "The best thing I can do for now is stay right here," he tells inquiring pols, pointing down at his thick beige carpet. A light pink shirt may sit puckishly against his somber Treasury pinstripes, or an Hermes tie may softly signal his worldly strides...
March 7, 1988: 1000 students sign a petition urging the University to remain neutral during the union campaign...
...such advice from above can do more harm than good. The union and 1000 students have called on Harvard to remain "neutral" in the upcoming election, by not taking an anti-union stance. While it is too late for the administration to take a believably "neutral" position, since the University has already made it quite clear which side it stands on, it is not too late for Harvard to step back...
Student groups around campus, led by Phillips Brooks House's Committee for Economic Change (CEC), a student organization which has always offered active support to HUCTW, are signing a petition which urges the University to remain neutral. The petition specifically asks Harvard not to engage in anti-union activities and not to delay the union election...