Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other quaint U-Hall tradition; it changes hands now and then when students here get mad enough about something, like they did nine years ago about Vietnam, etc. Sometimes students just sit down in front of the building and prevent access to it, as they did last year to protest the University's policy of retaining investments in firms with operations in South Africa. When there is a protest to be held, it is a tradition to hold it at University Hall, but don't expect the building or its inhabitants to pay much attention...
...size of the committees is another point yet to be decided: "They have very large consitiuencies, so they obviously can't be too small." Rosovsky estimated that he will appoint a minimum of five members to each subcomittee, not including the chairman and non-voting student membe5rs who will sit on each...
Many Republicans will just sit there and whine about...
There was no sign that Begin had any important new ideas to offer or concessions to make, even though he had a great deal riding on that meeting. Until then, his critics-the Israelis who regard their Premier as an obstacle to peace-will presumably sit on their hands and hope he will prove them wrong. But if the summit fails disastrously, his own aides admit, a disenchantment with Begin's leadership could quickly...
...accused choosing to exercise their right to trial increased only from 6.7% to 9.6%. Why? "Because defendants know they have nothing to gain by going to trial," says Stevens Clarke, a University of North Carolina professor of public law and government who monitored the study. Making a judge sit through several days of trial, especially if the defendant has perjured himself, can only bring down a harsher sentence than if the defendant had just pleaded guilty to begin with. "To me, that's still plea bargaining," says Colorado's Alschuler. "That's the loophole in the Alaska...