Word: opt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...potential while pressuring for a far wider conception of the ACSER. Representatives must couple their participation on the committee with a commitment to work for a broader-based and more powerful body. Undergraduates should cooperate in University change, but refuse to legitimize any "advisory committee's" attempt to co-opt opposition to University policies...
...took long-haired kids, campus riots, Gene McCarthy and finally George Mc-Govern to force Richard Nixon to come out and opt for finally ending...
...traditionally Democratic South, McGovern is taking a particularly bad beating. Even the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News has endorsed Nixon, the first time it has gone for a Republican in 91 years. The only Southern papers of any size to opt for McGovern so far are Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette and Louisville's Courier-Journal. Elsewhere, Nixon enjoys a solid majority of editorial votes in the Midwest and a virtual stranglehold on the West Coast. In New England, the sole prominent daily to declare for McGovern to date is the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle (circ...
...alternative political and social institutions. These alternatives will require government reform in order to succeed, at least in their early stages. However, as the women's committee points out so well, the reforms they need are "non-reformist reforms," which open the path to further change, rather than co-opt and diffuse the strength of the movement...
...unprofitable -programming. This season will include specials like ABC'S series about Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, one of several dramas CBS and Joseph Papp are planning. If the networks were forced into a rigid formula limiting reruns, they would undoubtedly opt for the cheapest solution, dropping the specials and extending the standard run of series from the present 22-to-24 weeks to the 39 weeks of a decade...