Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position is a near-total retreat from the former demand that majority rule be effected before independence would be granted. Nevertheless, Wilson was able to parlay the policy into a major diplomatic victory. Observers had predicted that last month's Commonwealth meetings in London would collapse under pressure from militant African representatives. Instead, Commonwealth leaders issued a joint communique in which they affirmed the Six Principles, demanded that Smith submit, and threatened to request that the United Nations enforce mandatory economic sanctions if he refused...
...money no longer need keep anyone out of college, it nevertheless adds to the many pressures working on today's college student. Those pressures are so great that Moderator, a national magazine for college students, last week indicated that suicidal tendencies on U.S. campuses are greater than almost anyone had imagined. In the first authoritative estimate of its kind, the magazine claimed that 1,000 U.S. collegians will kill themselves this year, that another 9,000 will try and fail, and that 90,000 will threaten to do so. Though the figures may seem too tidy, many college counselors...
...there are nevertheless a number of aspects in which the building doesn't equal the ambiance of the "medieval cloister" with which the Radcliffe News Office has somewhat unfortunately compared it. While the exterior does, perhaps, evoke the "pattern of light and shadow associated with the contemplative mood of a medieval cloister," it lacks the sense of weighty mass and the play of volumes which is indispensible to the monastic mood. It is one of the few buildings which looks exactly like its cut-out mock-ups or elevation drawings...
...into a nasty, costly primary scrap with moderate Republican George Christopher, former mayor of San Francisco. Tom Kuchel, who usually avoids involvement in state party squabbles, loudly backed Christopher in the primary, saying, "I know where he stands-which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan." Nevertheless, Reagan won with 64% of the votes -and pulled 50,000 more than Governor Brown did in a much closer Democratic race against maverick Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty...
Indira appeared confident at last week's conference. Even though her speeches in Parliament may strike politicians as lackluster, she nevertheless remains the most effective campaigner on India's hustings. And that, after all, is where the votes...