Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions Mr. E.L. Pattullo's right to express his opinions, no matter how misinformed and inflammatory they may be. What the GSA and those of who have signed its petition object to is the fact that his signing his letter with his title and his using the word "we" ("...we see exclusive homosexuality as a disability and believe that society should be structured to encourage heterosexual development") implies, perhaps unwittingly, that the Center for Behavioral Sciences endorses the concept of "negative social pressures" against gay people...
...Security Council, particularly with former National Security Adviser Richard Allen. One quarrel was over an Executive order supported by the NSC that would have given the CIA broad authority to spy on U.S. citizens at home when they were linked to "significant foreign intelligence" operations. Inman did not publicly object to this domestic CIA role, but he did oppose giving the CIA a free hand in the types of activities it could probe and the methods it could use. Largely because of his efforts, the order was tightened to put clearer limits on what the CIA could do at home...
Complaints have divided so far into those who take exception to Bok's apparent advocacy of test scores and grades as tools of public policy and those who object to the report's basic implications--that financial aid must be cut, and that achievement can or should be added to need in deciding who should receive...
...have to write theses, they realize that a lot of books they will need if they want to write about women are up in Radcliffe Yard, and when they want to think about a career, they realize that only at Radcliffe are the special problems women face the sole object of consideration. "But many students, nevertheless, make it through all four years without having a meaningful interaction with any part of Radcliffe House Intern Barbara E. Mahon '82 says that many students simply view Radcliffe as "extracurricular" and that it suffers in competition with other campus activities...
...even dismissed-are assembled, implying verbs and actions-but the leaves these actions to be guessed. So, in "Martita and Luisa," the name "Martita," in a direct address, starts the action; then the name grows larger than the description, ending the first section of the poem and becoming the object of a bizarre pathetic fallacy. A fallacy that fails to attribute empathy, human qualities or emotional action to nature, but rather to a word, humanity's learned nature and poetry's substance...