Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombmaking capability?in one year, as Israeli intelligence would have it, or ten, as nuclear regulators claim ?falls within the internationally recognized definition of "imminent danger." Legal scholars sympathetic to Israel suggest that the country should have given a public warning or ultimatum to Iraq, or taken other overt diplomatic action before launching the strike. Says Alfred Rubin, international law professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "It makes a difference politically. I would have thought they would have been better off lining up al lies and so forth...
...panel met several times during the late fall and winter to hear testimony from Skocpol and members of the department. After weeks of deliberation, the panel released a report in which two members concluded that sex discrimination influenced the department's decision. The committee distinguished in its report between overt sexism--which all members agreed they had not found--and institutional sex discrimination. It also recommended that Dean Rosovsky advance Skocpol's case to the next step in the tenure process...
...alumni of years past, and those that will become alumni after today's ceremonies--have a great opportunity. Continue to apply pressure, but make it overt and conspicuous, like the pressure recently and effectively applied by the city government. And make it on the side of human rights and basic liberties. Write Harvard and explain to them that there'll be no donations from you until it is clear the money will not be invested in companies or banks that do business with South Africa. Write Harvard and explain that, as women students, you felt cheated by the shortage...
EXPLOITATION of different people for different reasons occurs in every corner of society. Sometimes it is naked and does not pretend to excuse itself, as in the codified economic slavery of apartheid; sometimes it takes a less overt form, as in the maltreatment of minority groups in both the United States and the Soviet Union. But all its forms share a degradation of the human spirit that springs from treating individuals as means to economic ends...
...Both subtle and overt signs point to deeply-rooted racist attitudes in the Law School," James Katz, a law student, said, adding that an incomplete study of student attitudes toward minority students "is rumored to contain graphic and emotional testimony of deep racial division at the Law School...