Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With quiet resolution, President Derek C. Bok has resisted the demands of protesting students, alumni and community members who want the University to divest of its $416 million in stock in companies that do business in South Africa...
...resolve his administrative dilemma over divestment. In the hot quiet summer and in the wake of the U.C. divestment Bok can quietly do the same. He should do it because it's the right thing to do and he can do it without endangering his carefully nurtured administrative control of the University...
...last name with someone the government suspected of having guerrilla connections, in which the economy is 60 percent government controlled and most depend on Government House to put their daily bread on the table, and in which years of military dictatorship have left the lesson that if you are quiet and obedient you will survive, everyone to a certain extent condoned the military. Everyone was both a victim and an accomplice. Except the mothers...
...against South Africa and the Administration's continued resistance to such measures. As both a loyal Reaganaut and an independent-minded chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar found himself in the unenviable position of trying to construct a compromise. Yet he was able to say, in his quiet and ingenuous way, "I don't see my own role as pressured...
...world becomes one large poetic image as French director Agnes Varda transforms one girl's story into a supposedly universal metaphor; life is an aimless wander, meeting people and passing through places until you die. And, believe it or not, the film's beautiful cinematography and Saundrine Bonnaire's quiet naturalness as the girl actually make this work...