Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center, which has operated since its founding in 1959 on grants from he Ford Foundation, is currently undergoing "a period of reassessment," Rosenblith said. The Foundation declined to renew its last grant, which expired in June...
...When the U.C.L.A. board of regents refused to renew the contract of Angela Davis, they justified their action on the ground that she talked too much. According to some, she believed in free speech only when she had her mouth open. But this was not the reason for her actual discharge: it was for talking anywhere and everywhere (except at U.C.L.A.) as a proclaimed member of the Communist Party. And now she runs to keep from talking to anyone anywhere about anything...
...seven years younger than Cronkite, Reasoner felt that he might have to wait for years to succeed Walter-and at that the succession was uncertain. Moreover, Reasoner was piqued at being relegated to radio for CBS's election-night coverage, and upset that CBS was offering to renew his expiring contract for another seven years without a raise above his estimated current annual $150,000. ABC offered a five-year contract, at something close to $1 million overall...
Nixon sent Henry Cabot Lodge to renew semi-official contacts with the Vatican then visited the Vatican himself, eliciting the Associated Press statement: "Pope Paul VI and President Nixon apparently are forming strong working links between the Vatican and the White House. Their personal friendship also appears to be growing." In the October 6 New York Times, an article entitled, "The Pope and the President" is critical of both but, of greater interest, the official seals of both are prominently displayed side-by-side above the title...
Hartman, who is now a lecturer in the city planning department at the University of California at Berkeley, is currently appealing last year's decision by the GSD faculty not to renew his Harvard appointment. Hartman and many GSD students contend that his dismissal was politically motivated...