Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said, however, that terms such as "arrogant" are not necessarily useful in describing faculty members. "I would wonder if it could be framed a little less negatively," Jewett said, adding that unnecessarily critical write-ups could push professors away from teaching undergraduate courses...
...policy in South Africa. Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, argued that withdrawing U.S. investments from South Africa in an effort to coerce the country into abandoning apartheid would do more harm than good. Said he: "We can cut out the cancer without killing the patient." Jackson, head of Operation Push, was less sanguine. "With increased investment in apartheid," he maintained, "the rope around the necks of the people appears to be getting tighter as opposed to looser." The on-camera conversation was heated, but once the lights were off, piety and politics took over. Falwell said amen to most...
...wanted to appeal to a wide range of people, and show them that there are other ways to push for divestment than protest marches and takeovers," says Tina Smith '83, a GSAS student who was one of the founding members of the Endowment...
...wanted to appeal to a wide range of people, and show them that there are other ways to push for divestment than protest marches and takeovers," says Tina Smith '83, a GSAS student who was one of the founding members of the Endowment...
...their ministers. Tougher yet, he cited four of the incompetents by name. Moscow gossip has it that unless the Old Guard can somehow figure out a way to stop him before the Communist Party Congress meeting next February, an event that occurs only once every five years, Gorbachev will push out fully half of the 300 members of the Central Committee and replace them with his own loyalists. The military has not been spared Gorbachev's housecleaning instincts. Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov, 74, has been designated only a candidate member of the Politburo rather than a full member...