Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presented with Coeducation Week as a fait accompli he cut off communication with the organizers and, as of the middle of The Week, no one had heard a word from him. "One of the most important parts of this project" boasts the official Coeducation Week press release, "is student power...
...doubt that many coeds had that sort of student power in mind when they decided to share themselves with Yale for one week. Although there were innumerable efforts to make it respectable by scheduling coeducational panel discussions with titles like, "Educational Innovation: Is It Possible Within The Present University Structure?" and "Exploitation In Ghetto Real-Estate Transactions," we all knew why we were there, and they all knew why we were there and we didn't need any panel discussions to help us along...
...takeover, in contrast to the bungling inefficiency that has characterized Keita's eight years in power, went off with impressive efficiency. The evening before the troops moved, about 40 army officers gathered in a secluded villa on the capital's outskirts to draw up their plans. They were under pressure: there were rumors that many faced arrest by Keita's armed militia, his so-called Red Guards. After a heated debate, the officers formed a 14-man National Liberation Committee, and troops, half-tracks and Soviet-built T-34 tanks rolled out into Bamako's silent...
Unmistakably, the goal of the U.F.T. was to cripple the decentralization experiment, which it fears might lead to a dissolution of its bargaining power by giving local communities control of hiring and firing. Ironically, the strike seems to have furthered the cause of decentralization. Thousands of previously uninvolved city parents, white and black, who had been content to let the schools run themselves, became personally involved in their children's schools, and their operation. Those who were "radicalized" by the strike are not likely to continue to let the professional-teacher, supervisor, board-of-education bureaucrat-have full...
Next to styling, power and the solid thunk of quality as the door is closed, auto dealers like to spiel about the warranties behind their cars. By the time the happy customer drives off, he has every reason to believe that that handsome document from the manufacturer promises an absence of problems with his new car, fast, expert service when problems do occur and, in fact, just about everything short of Medicare...