Word: sit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues are not that simple. While Americans have no reason to be terrified to sit down at the dinner table, they have every reason to demand significant improvements in food and water safety. They unwittingly and unwillingly ingest too much of too many dangerous chemicals. If food already contains natural carcinogens, it does not make much sense to add dozens of new man-made ones. Though most people will withstand the small amounts of contaminants generally found in food and water, at least a few individuals will probably get cancer one day because of what they eat and drink...
...first issue I would like to address concerns the dining halls. Why do people take such offense to a group of minorities sitting at a table together? Does anyone ever question or even notice a table full of whites? What about the tables where there is a mixed group of people? Mr. Hsia did not even acknowledge the existence of such tables. I, like many of my friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Futhermore, I believe that it is a credit...
Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who led a sit-in in 1987 to protest the denial of tenure to Critical Legal Studies adherent Clare Dalton, said the nationwide protest promised to be be "very effective...
...unlikely assemblage of computer experts, biologists, ethicists, industry scientists and engineers. "Today we begin," chairman Zinder declared. "We are initiating an unending study of human biology. Whatever it's going to be, it will be an adventure, a priceless endeavor. And when it's done, someone else will sit down and say, 'It's time to begin...
...occurs at Harvard. We immediately took a number of steps to tell the students, faculty and staff that a rape had occurred at the Science Center. We systematically do other things, such as the publication of the weekly flyer for posting in the Houses. We are always willing to sit down with a Crimson reporter on a weekly basis to discuss what is happening. Every few years, The Crimson takes us up on this offer and runs weekly stories, but then your interest seems to wane. We would encourage you to run weekly stories as a community service...