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Word: roles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday the committee met again to talk about the controversy. After two hours of discussion, the committee resolved to write Calkins asking him to clarify both the role of the committee and the University's policy on boycotts in general. "Some people were still pretty upset about it," Stone said after the meeting. Epps plans to draft the letter soon...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Who's In Charge Around Here? | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...Kunstler is surely aware that I helped to prepare the brief on behalf of Ms. Little's trial lawyer who was facing disciplinary proceedings for his role in Ms. Little's trial. I have repeatedly spoken out against the denial of counsel to Ms. Little and others. Mr. Kunstler also neglected to mention that I participated in the preparation of the brief in Kunstler's own appeal to the Seventh Circuit from his contempt conviction growing out of the "Chicago Seven" trial. He also knows that I have spoken out in behalf of the "Wilmington Ten," participated in the defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reply to Kuntsler | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

While the United States can bask in its unaccustomed role as an uninvolved bystander, the complete inability of the U.S. government to pursue its own foreign policy goals or exercise any mediating influence in this crisis reveals a basic weakness in the way that the United States has developed and pursued foreign policy throughout Asia and in much of the world...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Playing the Same Old Song | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...following is an interview with Irving Bluestone, conducted on February 7. Bluestone is a Vice-President of the International United Auto Workers union [UAW] and director of the UAW General Motors [GM] Department. He has played a leading role in the introduction of Quality of Work Life Programs [QWL] in GM plants. A form of industrial democracy, these programs aim to give workers greater control over decisions concerning the work process on the shop-floor. UAW's programs represent the first effort by a major union to introduce some measure of shop-floor democracy on a large scale...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: UAW: Loosening the Chains | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

Today, "bad arts" cannot be so easily determined as a missed cue or a wrong note. Finding the role of performing in art education and finding qualified teachers are problems of assessment that send University administrators scurrying to far easier tasks like budget-balancing and tuition-raising. It is one thing to decide that learning from performers is a valuable experience for students. It is quite another to decide which performers are valuable enough to 'society" to merit a tenured teaching post at Harvard...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Don't Talk of Love, Show Me | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

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