Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That policy shift may tempt Harvard to abandon keeping its hefty records on affirmative action endeavors, but the University should resist the urge. Harvard should continue to report publicly on its hiring efforts, and show that the Reagan Revolution should not and will not move affirmative action from the spotlight...
...network of such arrangements is strategically critical if the U.S. is to deter, and, if necessary, resist, a Soviet thrust toward the warm waters and the oil. To be sure, Israel's own military power might be a genuine asset to the U.S. in such a contingency. Israel could provide the American units with tactical air support-as long as its hostile Arab neighbors did not take advantage of the broader conflict and attack Israel and thus tie down its air force. Moreover, while the possibility of a Soviet blitzkrieg into Iran or Pakistan cannot be discounted...
...approached by the producers agree to appear on the show. It is also the source of some criticism: a party who created a dispute through wrongful conduct can end up benefiting from it. Such a profit, however, may be more than offset by the adverse publicity, so some businessmen resist the temptation to argue their cases on national television...
...Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass., built a medieval French walled city. But not even the most formidable sculptures could long resist those twin nemeses, wind and tide...
Despite their objections, the Governors did not reject new federalism outright. But they warned that it "must be a two-way street," as Georgia Governor George Busbee put it. States will resist the further transfer of federal responsibilities, he said, unless "there is a carefully conceived plan to sort out appropriate roles for each level of government and to balance those with adequate resources." It was not acceptable, Busbee cautioned, for "our friends" in Washington to "pick out the most expensive, the most difficult to manage, the most politically controversial federal programs, and hand them over to the states...