Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Nixon and Mitchell law and order paranoia tainted the early code reform efforts. When President Johnson founded the Brown Commission in 1966, charging it with recommending paths to code reform, it was well-stocked with good liberals...
Episode two found our would-be villians, the MBTA, signing a contract to build a tunnel from Harvard to Porter Square. That move followed a federal district court judge's refusal of a citizen's group demand for a temporary restraining order...
...posters announcing the Kennedy School dedication itself--and that he had been doing so on instructions from Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Epps has denied that he issued any such instructions, but why should the officer have any reason to lie about Epps' having given the order? The matter deserves clarification...
Similar pressures today generally take a financial form as colleges fold at an alarming rate. Riesman says financially weak schools often feel the need to differentiate themselves, if only slightly, from other schools in order to attract students. But change is risky because a school making the wrong choice may lose students and have to close. "If you get empty buildings, you wind up as a Holiday Inn," says Howard Solomon, dean of undergraduate studies and academic affairs at Tufts...
...request, 600 marines were flown to Managua the next day to protect lives and property and stabilize the Somoza regime. The determination of successive administrations to keep Somoza in power is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the U.S. government continues to violate its own laws in order to funnel aid to Somoza. Specifically, the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aid to foreign police forces--but the National Guard is Nicaragua's police force. (It is also the army. But there is no real threat of foreign invasions; the only real threat is from the Nicaraguan masses...