Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travel more than 100 miles away to the village of Greenfield, Mass., in the event of a nuclear attack, the city council decided to take a stand. The body refused to distribute the federal plans, and instead assembled its own blueprint for avoiding nuclear disaster: a mass-produced pamphlet detailing the case for disarmament...
...only city liberals, however, have been jumping on the anti-nuke banwagon during this year's campaign. Perceiving the overwhelming popularity of the city's disarmament pamphlet, nearly every incumbent city councilor has attempted to grab a share of the credit for its distribution. city councilors can only gain from supporting students' efforts to stop nuclear research at MIT, Harvard and private laboratories. Because of the non-binding status of Question #3, as well as the potential unconstitutionality of banning all nuclear studies, most older voters will probably shrug off this issue with a laugh...
Heath's blast was echoed by 13 fresh men Tory M.P.s who are known as the "Blue Chips" because of their predominantly aristocratic backgrounds. They distributed a pamphlet titled Changing Gear: What the Government Should Do Next, in which they called for a watering down of Thatcher's monetarism. Far more ominous for the Prime Minister was the lineup of Establishment Tories who are now decrying her economic policies and lack of compassion. Calling monetarism "the uncontrollable in pursuit of the indefinable," Sir Ian Gilmour, who was Deputy Foreign Secretary until Thatcher purged her Cabinet of dissidents last...
...decided to confront this New Right adversary from his new seat on the sidelines. In addition to his plans to taking it easy, McGovern has a political project as well--a new citizen action committee called "Americans for Common Sense" (ACS). The title, drawn from Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet, reflects the committee's objective: to inject "common sense" into the current political debate, which McGovern believes is dominated by the irrational messages of the New Right. ACS will act both as an information clearinghouse on New Right groups and as an organizing committee in support of progressive causes...
Harvard's Women's Studies program, which currently consists of a listing of courses offered in other departments is inadequate, according to a Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) pamphlet distributed this week. The field "remains unrecognized by the various departments," the pamphlet says. Elizabeth A. Einaudi '83, president of RUS and co-author of the pamphlet, said this week the lack of recognition results from the University's "long-standing bias against Women's Studies." But Judith A. Kates, coordinator of the committee on Women's Studies, said this week that bias isn't the problem. "There just hasn...