Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the administration's solid backer from the beginning, ushered a version of the original bill through the Senate under fire from the medical establishment, and he will probably shepherd the revised version through as well. Leadership in both houses, however, has not proven as rancorous as younger members who feel ignored by Carter, courted by the hospital lobby and pressured by influential constituents who serve as hospital trustees. If Carter now shows a greater understanding of the political process, his compromises have not saved the bill from an essential misperception of the nature...
...current Expos director to abolish the fiction-writing option is its wrong-headedness in going after the song-birds with a shotgun. I don't refer to the teachers, but to those students how come to the college with an ability to write and also a need--under proven, rigorous supervision--to try their voices at something other than "the expository essay...
...current Expos director's "solution"--to shoot down the birds that can sing, and also teachers of proven excellence and compassion--is a solution that will inflict totally unnecessary harm on Harvard/Radcliffe freshmen if he continues to prevail...
...argument that economic growth can produce fundamental change has proven false. Many black organizations have opposed foreign investment in South Africa, and this would be the opinion of the majority in South African blacks if their voices could be heard...
...Vietnamese, they benefit from the fact that they are defending their own country against a historically hated enemy. They are proven fighters with undeniable staying power. "It's too early to tell who is better," says a U.S. Defense Department expert. "Man for man, the weight of experience would be on the Vietnamese side...