Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensible about it and do not blow up the dragons of catastrophe beyond life size, those costs need be only short term. In fact, if we learn the right lessons and resist drawing the wrong conclusions from this unhappy national experience, we may, over the long pull, emerge the stronger...
...contrast to Gorton's unquestioning support for American policy in Viet Nam, the Laborites made it clear that they would pull all 8,000 Aussie troops out of Viet Nam by June-and out of Southeast Asia reasonably soon. Labor Leader Gough Whitlam, 53, laid out a program of social reforms, including a free health scheme and free university education at a cost of $15.6 million a year, and an emergency school grant of $112 million to cover immediate needs. His emphasis on domestic issues, which normally take second place in Australian elections to foreign affairs, appealed...
More important, though, was Betsy Sable's point on this subject. "The hardship cases are the real problems here at Planned Parenthood. These women don't have the money to go to England, and they don't have the pull to get into a local hospital without the staff psychiatrists consent. Most have never seen a psychiatrist in their lives, so that they can't possibly have a mental record. And they usually come to us after it's too late to have the operation performed locally. They're the ones who wind up in the back offices...
...thing is certain at this point: we haven't heard or seen the last of the conservatives within the SA and the HBS student body. They will undoubtedly continue in their attempts to pull the student body back to the towers of aloofness. One can only hope that we haven't heard or seen the last of the signers of the anti-Vietnam petition, also...
Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design...