Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This neighborhood on North Harvard Street has a history of very militant opposition to the BRA's plans to redevelop the site. In 1964, when the BRA tried to evict 85 low income families to build a high-rise luxury apartment tower, the residents fought back so bitterly that the...
Mass protest has been neither frequent nor popular at Rice University in conservative Houston. The fact that the Rice campus is involved in M-day action results from the work of English Professor Alan Grob, 37, a scholar in Romance literature and one of the university's outstanding teachers...
In the current case of Judge Clement Haynsworth, however, the White House attitude-a combination of stolidity and nervous optimism-increasingly sounded like whistling in the dark. Though the Senate Judiciary Committee last week cleared Haynsworth's nomination to the Supreme Court by a vote of 10 to 7...
The opposition was encouraged further when the American Bar Association, which originally supported Haynsworth's nomination, announced that it would have another look at the judge's qualifications. Scrutiny will focus on Haynsworth's alleged insensitivity to potential conflicts of interest. A negative reassessment by the A.B.A...
But there is still powerful opposition to any flexibility; according to one report, Chou had to fight to win approval from the Politburo merely to meet with Kosygin in September.