Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...festive ceremony marking the end of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's 14-year quest for its own headquarters, the University formally dedicated the new Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building yesterday afternoon...
Strobe Talbott totally ignores the fact that in its quest for peace Israel is returning to Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, which contains oilfields that Israel developed and that could have made it energy independent...
...issues from the outset of his quest for the presidency more than 15 years ago have been the need to establish a Spartan attitude toward domestic concerns and a tough posture towards the outside world; and analytical search for enlightened solutions has never marked the former California Governor's policymaking. The supply-side rhetoric of 1980, along with his proclamation of a new mandate for governing America, were supposed themselves to be solutions for the grave social problems facing the nation. A word from the people, a word from the President, and the final O.K. from Wall Street were...
Harvard for too long has lagged in the national quest for affirmative action in education. The relaxation of federal standards may tempt the University to ease its efforts; we hope Harvard will use it as an opportunity to spearhead the cause of affirmative action across the country, by setting an example of vigorous searching for women and minority scholars when doing so is out of favor...
...other issue. Students who would not consider using racial epithets still belittle the efforts of gay activists; some show their intolerance by pelting gay students with food as they try to make announcements in dining halls. Yet the struggle for gay rights is fundamentally no different from the quest for minority rights. We hope 1981-82 will be remembered as the year when undergraduates abandoned their disrespect for and harassment of gay students and instead mobilized with gays in their quest for a formal University policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...