Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact of the SASC report became obvious after an intensive follow-up campaign convinced a number of key faculty members and Black South African leaders that the internship program must be re-evaluated. The significance of the controversy, however, goes well beyond the score card between SASC and Harvard and has highlighted fundamental problems with Harvard's attitude toward politically sensitive issues...
...policymakers misses the point entirely. The Contras are a band of murdering thugs and we should not be giving them anything--whether or not we approve of the Sandinistas. Furthermore, the paternalistic arrogance of assuming that all nations should order their domestic affairs to U.S. specifications is so obvious that it hardly bears criticism...
...most obvious result of divestment would be that the university would lose the influence it currently has to try to persuade companies to oppose apartheid and improve the lot of their Black employees," Bok said in the statement...
...have great confidence in this test," Hopkins said. "And it's increasingly obvious that a large part of the problem...is represented by people who are infected but who are not now symptomatic...
...plot centers around a series of coups in an unnamed archduchy, in which increasingly more ruthless leaders usurp the throne. lonesco takes this all-to-obvious premise--e.g. that power corrupts--and revels in its inanity. While facing execution for leading an unsuccessful rebellion, Candor (Glen Whitney) declares that he is a historical dead-end, and that his "rebellion was necessary, if only to prove I'm a criminal." Much of the humor of the play arises from the hackneyed, emotionally-inappropriate intellectualizations in which the characters are endlessly engaged...