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Word: questionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real estate lawyer who is the council's most vocal critic of rent control, Walsh has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for business transactions with several city officials. And while he is not being accused of illegal activity, liberal groups like the CCA have been quick to question the propriety of his business dealings...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Regardless of which specific measures are considered or passed by the council, the ROTC debate is likely to become an issue in the campaign for council seats and for chair, much as the question of the nine all-male final clubs did a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council's ROTC Dilemma: Preparing for an About-Face | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...members of the Harvard field hockey team anything but one question...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Don't Ask That Question | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...between points. patrons are permitted to clap politely, and 15-year-old girls that aren't grunting and throwing tantrums and beating Martina Navatrilova on Court Nine are allowed to squeal "Yay, Andre!" Criticism is out of the question. Booing is blasphemous. Whistling is acceptable for protesting particularly egregious line calls, but only the players can yell and scream. And they do, in direct proportion to the amount of complaining they do about crowd noise...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Quiet, the Bor-meister is Serving" | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...here the disagreement over the means and ends of a pluralist community comes to a sharp focus. Like the battle between the cultural right and left, with the literary or historical canon somehow held ransom between the two, the question over minority hiring seems to revolve around the perceived "lowering of standards" needed to diversify the faculty. Just who sets--and who judges--the standards of course is the most difficult question of all to answer. In a pluralist society, what are the certainties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Working for Inclusion | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

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