Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alevizos said he cut his staff because he believed that the library was over-staffed last year. "Rather than have someone stand around or read on the job," he said, "we'd prefer to use that money for books or something useful for the library and the students...
Alevizos said that "from the library's stand point there hasn't been overly excessive pressure on the night staff." He added that "the library isn't heavily used yet." He said that he has been in Lamont at various times and has never seen the place filled, the desk over-flowing with people waiting for reserve books...
Intransigent Right. Both men had at least some compelling reasons to try to reach agreement. The economic sanctions, for example, threaten Rhodesia with permanent loss of the British tobacco market. Yet far from softening Rhodesia's stand, as Wilson hoped, the sanctions have only helped create a more intransigent opposition on Smith's right. When Smith emerged victorious over Rhodesia's extreme rightists in a by-election this summer, Wilson evidently decided that he might never have a better chance for compromise...
...were no different from other people except that they needed help. She makes this point now through the 25,000-member national Welfare Rights Organization, which developed from her own similar organization in Los Angeles. "Part of our work," she says, "is giving welfare recipients the self-confidence to stand up to the county social workers as equals instead of doing whatever they say, like dogs. We make sure our members understand the welfare laws and know what's coming to them " When that is not enough, the group sues the county -and has successfully forced it to heed...
Raines said that once the HPU has taken a stand on an issue they try to go about implementing their position in the best possible way. This might include lobbying for faculty support, testifying before the HUC or SFAC, or even demonstrations, he said...