Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three other undergraduate protesters left the sit-in about an hour before the arrests. Approximately 45 activists staged the sit-in Monday at the office of Overseer Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '47, a senior partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray...
...trial will probably be deferred until the fall, said Goldstein, a super- vising attorney for Harvard's Legal Aid Bureau,who participated in the sit-in on Monday forseveral hours. He said the delay would stem fromthe request for information about Harvard's linksto Ropes and Gray that he plans to make...
...marketing report?" asks Josh, who has never heard of such a thing, and the company president (Robert Loggia) is so impressed with his ability to look at the product rather than the charts that he appoints him vice president in charge of development, assigning him to do nothing but sit in an office and play. Like the Peter Sellers character in Being There, Josh is held in awe for what is perceived as his simple, childlike wisdom...
Despite his dusty disdain for the word detente, Reagan was consecrating a renewed era of just that -- detente. He was reaffirming the central role of arms control as the coin of the realm when the globe's two ideological adversaries sit down to bargain. And he was working toward a new arms deal that would go well beyond the medium-range nuclear treaty that the Senate ratified last week to stabilize nuclear deterrence, not abandon it. Thus Reagan has shown yet again, more emphatically than any of his postwar predecessors, that four decades of accumulated realities have given a continuity...
...recent Masters tournament, a streaky golfer named Raymond Floyd, who was in a bit of a slump, predicted that the Scot Sandy Lyle would win. Lyle was hot, and it was Floyd's experience that even the cold shots of a warm player bounce out of the creeks and sit up in the rough. Needing a birdie on the final hole, Lyle drove into a fairway bunker, fell into an ideal lie, struck a perfect shot...