Word: reform
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to addressing our activism to socially-minded issues such as apartheid, we Harvard students might do well to consider another action next year: a boycott of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, until such time as a reform of the group enables it to be more than simply a mechanism for legitimating the shareholding actions of Harvard, which still essentially does whatever it damn well pleases, ACSR or no ACSR...
Only the day before, Senator Edward Kennedy had told the delegates that "health reform is in danger of becoming the missing promise in the Administration's plans...
...confidence. We will not even try to form a minority government as Labor has now. We consider the Democratic Movement for Change to be a serious candidate for the coalition. But we would not accept a D.M.C. ultimatum that we hold new elections in two years to get electoral reform. I would like a national unity government because now is an exceptional situation for Israel, both externally and internally. It is a serious situation. 1977 might be the year of political negotiations...
...about to say something about how I didn't think the Holy Father would care to hear Ignatius's views on ecumenism and Church reform, but canned the speech. Hell, I had won--he was the one who was talking heresy now, real burn-'em-at-the-stake stuff if the Knights of the Inquistion ever got the word back to Rome. The quality of mercy is not strained and all that, I thought, so I just nodded and walked away...
First he started arguing, the innocent bullshit-kind of argument everyone has when he or she is a freshman and wants to reform America's social conscience instead of reading for Gov 30. Paco played his role to the hilt, all Viva Zapata and Man of La Mancha and Impossible Dream--socialism, cliches and stereotypes and fiery speeches like he'd seen out in California. He picked his favorite target, the other Chicano on the floor--a rich kid from L.A. whose father owned a big factory that built tanks and had put him on the company's board...