Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, the only option for those wishing to express their anger at Harvard's investment policy and to protest its fundraising practices is to give to E4D, which emphasizes the numbers who give rather than the number that they give. In the likely event that Harvard does not divest and apartheid does not end, the money in E4D will be given to Phillips Brooks House to aid its worthwhile endeavors in the Boston area...
Cambridge law requires that rezoning proposals must normally receive six votes to pass, and the requirement rises to seven if the owners of 20 percent or more of the affected area protest the bill. The district includes Mather House, the Leverett Towers, Peabody Terrace, and other Harvard-owned buildings...
WARSAW, Poland--Police clashed with demonstrators yesterday in at least 15 cities as thousands of people heeded Solidarity's call for a national "day of protest...
...economic reforms began to be implemented and his principle of khozraschet, or cost accounting, started affecting an estimated 60% of Soviet industry. Many government bureaucrats have seen a threat to their extra privileges -- special housing, schools and food stores. Automatic bonuses for workers were threatened, which prompted protest strikes. Nationalist outbursts in the Baltic states, protest demonstrations by Crimean Tatars in Moscow and riots in Azerbaijan appeared to encourage those who blamed glasnost for the sudden wave of unrest...
...group deliberated for nearly three hours on the 12 remaining candidates for seven spots as leaders of the non-credit courses. The 12 included Weld, who resigned late last month, apparently to protest the alleged misconduct of his boss, Attorney General Edwin Meese...