Word: outgrowths
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According to some Philippine opposition leaders, the violence was an outgrowth of the regime's new get-tough policy, which is seen as a response to the visit to Manila two weeks ago of U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt. The Nevada Republican, who is a close friend of President Reagan's, met with Marcos to relay Washington's concerns about the growing Communist insurgency in the country. "There appears to be a go signal from Washington to Marcos to tighten the screws on protesters," said Homobono Adaza, an opposition member of the Filipino National Assembly. At midweek Marcos warned that...
...never attended classes with white students until he went to Harvard Law School. Handsome, slender and an immaculate dresser, Robinson rejected the corporate life chosen by many of his Harvard classmates and went to Washington, eventually joining the staff of Michigan Congressman Charles Diggs. TransAfrica began in 1977, an outgrowth of Robinson's earlier work with the Congressional Black Caucus in organizing opposition to the Ford Administration's benign policies toward white rule in what was then Rhodesia. Money, most of it contributed by prominent blacks, was hard to raise. Recalls Robinson: "We came up with between...
...Mart has tried to downplay the complaints, suggesting they are a natural outgrowth of success. With an organization of this size and status, "anyone who says something is not going to go bump in the night is not being realistic," said human-resources head Coleman Peterson in an interview before he retired last month...
...time was designed based on the report on “General Education for a Free Society” and intended to teach young Americans the principles they would need to protect freedom in the U.S. and across the world, and the Blackmer Committee was a natural outgrowth...
...University of Chicago, the Core curriculum—put in place before Harvard’s—was an outgrowth of the university’s unique traditions, says Boyer...