Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what about your overt foreign policy? You must be tired from jetting all around the globe to meet with foreign leaders, but do you have anything of substance to show for your efforts...
Styles change. But several Black students at the alumni gathering said in interviews that the deeper problems facing minority students have changed little since their years at Harvard. Overt and covert racism and the dearth of minority faculty were and are the major problems faced by Black students, said members of the Classes of 1981-1987 who were in Cambridge this weekend. The difference, according to the alumni, is Black undergraduates' growing focus on these issues...
Kevin Henderson '83 talked about examples of overt racism. In 1980, the year he moved into Winthrop House, the Black population in the house doubled, he said. "They knew we were coming," he said, and in response some people put racist posters up in his room...
...have every right to pull an advertisement--especially one that does not discuss any overt editorial view, and one that attempts to tacitly assert that business can exist in a political vacuum...
...same. The Soviet Union is scaling back its cold war commitments overseas in favor of a more pragmatic, diplomatic -- and potentially more successful -- drive to expand its influence abroad. The Soviets are moving in more subtle ways than of old to position themselves advantageously. The retrenchment from overt aggression, said a top adviser to President George Bush last week, discloses "a foreign policy of necessity designed to provide breathing space." But this necessity has bred a virtue: the plaudits for Moscow's policy shifts have led to an overall advance of the Gorbachev cause overseas. It is, of course, domestic...