Word: paving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every black worker whose working conditions improve through company policies we have helped to change is a human life made better. Every service that Americans can render in South Africa either to defend the victims of apartheid or to prepare students for higher education is a step that helps pave the way for change. Such efforts may not make an immediate visible dent on the apartheid system, but they are still worth doing. Together with similar steps by other concerned organizations, they may help to hasten the day of human dignity and political rights for all people in South Africa...
Every Cantab fondly recalls, for example, when the City tried to pave Harvard Yard; or when some local politician wanted to turn the Lampoon Castle into a public latrine. Legend also holds that it took the Cambridge Fire Department 45 minutes to respond to a fire in the steeple of Memorial Hall, located about 50 yards from the firehouse...
...doctors and theologians debated the ethics of Copeland's actions, Creighton's mother and sister made their feelings clear. They thanked the doctor and the hospital staff for doing "everything within their human power to give him a life" and expressed the hope that the Phoenix heart experiment "would pave the way" for other heart patients in need. "We are thankful," they said, "that it was available...
...proud of our unique culture. And we are also proud of our predecessors on the Harvard campus, whose struggles helped pave the way for our presence at this institution. As a measure of our appreciation and as a means of stressing the need for continued support among Blacks as well as other facets of the community, the Black Alumni Weekend has been created. I don't feel it is ethnocentric at all to encourage, entertain, and be inspired by men and women who have more experience than I concerning the construct of a cosmopolitan community. We are trying to engage...
...contest. Said a U.S. official: "We maintained a hands-off policy. But anyone who knows anything at all about Grenada knew that a moderate party was the best bet. What everybody wanted was a government that was neither leftist nor a brutal, corrupt, fruitcake regime that would pave the way for another radical takeover...