Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps this sense of heedless omniscience is what council leaders like Kenneth E. Lee and former Residential Committee Chair Gregory R. Schwartz '89 object to when they complain of seeming to protest College proposals in a vacuum...
...this way the cynicism projects itself onto the object of the cynicism. The term arises because we do not believe that people hold to liberal views for moral reasons. They hold to them because it is "cool." It is part of the process of stripping the morality from beliefs which once were thought to spring wholly from a moral foundation...
Other community leaders argue that tearing down the Inn would support O'Neill's contention that "there is not a lot of available, attractive, moderately priced hotel space in the Harvard Square area." But the community would not object if the site were used for academic purposes...
Last week ASEAN foreign ministers met to lay the groundwork for another "informal meeting" in Jakarta that will bring together the Kampuchean government, some if not all of the rebel factions, China, Viet Nam and Thailand. The object is to set up a formal peace parley aimed at devising a government power-sharing formula, nailing down a Vietnamese withdrawal timetable and establishing international monitoring of the peace...
...giving banks an invitation to shoot craps with the taxpayer's money." So said Michigan Democrat John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, with a touch of hyperbole. The object of his barb: a Fed ruling last week that will permit five leading bank holding companies -- Bankers Trust New York, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, J.P. Morgan and Security Pacific -- to buy and sell corporate bonds. The decision will enable the financial institutions to move, within strict limits, onto the turf of Wall Street firms, which have been encroaching on the banking business. Said Richard Huber, an executive vice...