Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instances, the resolution also refers to "the Palestinian and other Arab territories;" The Israelis object to the wording, since it seems to prejudge a crucial question still to be decided by the parties involved in Middle East negotiations-just which territories can be considered as belonging to the Palestinians...
...Lloyd Thrower '80, co-producer of the musical, said yesterday he does not object to the demonstrations because he expects just "a few people handing out leaflets...
Members of the Asian American Association (AAA) will demonstrate tonight and tomorrow night at performances of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals musical, "A Little Knife Music," because they object to the character Edgar Foo Young as an Asian stereotype...
Commercial industry, using such ads in prominent and therefore influential places, e.g., in magazines and in shops, endorses the implicit and explicit sexist message. Although we do not care what happens in the privacy of individual's homes, we object strongly to public display of women performing sexual services. This kind of public portrayal of women in necessarily demeaning (no equivalent depiction is ever seen of mennor should there be). While it may be legal to cloak pornography under the guise of advertising, it is morally irresponsible and in poor taste to do so. Society has the moral right...
...stir doubts than Columbia University Psychologist Herbert Terrace in his work with little Nim (full name: Nim Chimpsky, a play on the name of Linguist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a staunch proponent of the idea that language ability is biologically unique to humans). The object of Terrace's experiment was to prove Chomsky wrong -to show that creatures other than man could, indeed, conquer syntax and link words into sentences, however simple...