Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration information policies have greatly hindered scientific research and technological innovation, thereby handicapping the American economy and potentially damaging our national security. In the spirit of the Shattuck report, we urge President Bush to put an end to a policy that has proven ethically and economically disastrous...
...best, the College's decision last week to turn random part of the freshman housing lottery deserves praise of the same cautious and half-hearted caliber as the spirit in which it was implemented...
...Bundy never really died. His charred corpse may now be long buried, and the families of his victims may have found some satisfaction in his execution. But Bundy's spirit--his bloodlust--lives on, if not in a society that preserves capital punishment, than certainly in the hearts and minds of those standing in the pre-dawn light, hawking electric chair pins and cheering as Bundy's hearse drove away...
Most importantly, Visions '89 showed that "minority interests" should not be restricted to certain minorities, or even to minorities at all. Keynote speaker Samuel Betances called on participants to move beyond "coalitions of color" to "coalitions of interest." The upcoming AWARE Week will hopefully continue in this spirit with even more students of all races participating...
...spirit of glasnost is infusing the Soviet press, and its new, muckraking style of journalism already has some officials up a tree. When the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta published a report last year that meat producers were breaking the law by putting protein additives and other impurities in their sausage, the paper was promptly sued by a group of Moscow meatpackers, who demanded a retraction...