Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...common thread of interest. He spent much of freshman year and a summer in Albany working on union issues. He helped organize the 1978-79 boycott of J.P. Stevens, a southern textile company with a history of anti-union activity. A concern for labor also led Molyneux to spearhead a drive to remove Cotrell and Leonard caps and gowns from the Coop's shelves...
...leaflet is a reprint of a November 23 letter to The Crimson from Spartacus Youth League member Alden Cavanagh. In the letter Cavanagh calls Yun "the spearhead of a provocative attempt to bring the [Harvard student] demonstration inside," and the leaflet includes a photograph of Yun holding a sign that criticizes the Spartacists...
Harvard for too long has lagged in the national quest for affirmative action in education. The relaxation of federal standards may tempt the University to ease its efforts; we hope Harvard will use it as an opportunity to spearhead the cause of affirmative action across the country, by setting an example of vigorous searching for women and minority scholars when doing so is out of favor...
...People What They Want makes the circle of their life as a band complete. The songs are strictly geared toward the F.M. pop charts--songs that Davies, after 25-plus albums worth of music, could have written in his sleep. "Getting Better," the tune Davies obviously wrote to spearhead record sales, is a pleasing little ditty that probably took two minutes to write and three to arrange. "Destroyer," the most hard-hitting song in the album, rips off the riff from one of Davies' earliest hits, "All Day and All of the Night." The rest of the songs...
Harvard for too long has lagged in the national quest for affirmative action in education. The relaxation of federal standards may tempt the University to ease its efforts; we hope Harvard will use it as an opportunity to spearhead the cause of affirmative action across the country, by setting an example of vigorous searching for women and minority scholars when doing so is out of favor...