Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students are furious. Last spring, while Eileen Southern, the chairman of the department, was away on a semester sabbatical, junior faculty met with Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty Council to voice their dissatisfaction with her. At the same time, a series of demonstrations charged the administration--and Rosovsky in particular--with a systematic campaign to destroy the department...
...result of the Israeli raids on Lebanon is that they are driving Western Europe even further toward the Arab camp. West Germany and France, in particular, are hoping to secure from the Arab oil states some kind of agreement guaranteeing oil supplies and are impatient with Israeli intransigence. Before leaving for the Middle East last week, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher emphasized his government's support of Palestinian self-determination and its disapproval of the Israeli tactics in Lebanon. Privately the West Germans are furious that the Carter Administration has backtracked on its recent hints that there...
...construction cranes. The workers were starving; their children had rickets. The people of Jarrow staged a hunger march, walked the 280 miles to London to confront a government that refused to see them. Some 30 years later, Price wrote a song for them. It was rilled with pride, a particular kind of chin-out toughness set to an easy melody fit for a pub choir, and it had a memorable chorus: "And if they don't give us a couple o' bob/ Won't even give you a decent job/ Then ... with my blessings, burn them down...
...been higher than at lower levels. In the past dozen years, between 22 and 26 chief operating executives at the Jari project have been fired or shifted out (nobody seems to recall the exact number). Some moved on because they had fulfilled the phase of development that required their particular expertise. But many were shunted aside because they disagreed with Ludwig or failed to anticipate his wishes...
...person who objects to federal aid on the grounds that Chrysler has not made enough sacrifices or because the company bears much of the blame for its own downfall "is a much less difficult problem than someone who has a philosophical objection" to a federal bail-out of a particular company. "We'll just show them the consequences to the government if it doesn't choose to help Chrysler," he said...