Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true whether the university is public or private, although public universities like the City University of New York are more likely to cut back specifically on non-vocational programs, whereas private universities like Boston University are more likely to emphasize staff cutbacks. American students have just begun to resist these attacks on the quality of their education, as in the strike at Brown last year. But as this professionalization of the educational system progresses nationally, the need for a dynamic oppositional movement will become greater, and the example of the French students will loom larger...
...denials seem completely predictable--almost boring. The pattern is all too familiar: someone gets a call from a reporter and can't resist the urge to talk, only to regret it later. But the fact that the source panics and later issues a flat denial doesn't change the quote...
...because, as Mansfield said, the Senate should claim "its traditional privilege that information secured by employees of the Senate pursuant to their official duties may not be revealed without the consent of the Senate. Having supplied the information relevant to the use of the frank, the Senate should resist any further intrusion in the operations of the Senate and individual Senate offices," Mansfield said...
...flew into Wisconsin, where Mo Udall's campaign against Carter seemed to be lagging and close friends report Humphrey agreed they should support the Arizonan. He was unable to resist flying into New York where he gave an exhilarating speech to a conference of U.S. mayors, overshadowing earlier appearances by Carter, Udall and Scoop Jackson...
...expunge the word détente. He complained that the decision was a petty capitulation to right-wing critics and tended to undercut the long-range policy the Administration intends to pursue. Publicly Kissinger made a point of reasserting that the U.S. would continue its "dual policy" of attempting to resist and deter Soviet adventurism while striving for "more constructive relations" with the Kremlin...