Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, you could say that constructive engagement was an excuse for a stand-pat policy, a do-nothing policy," says Thompson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson. But he says the plan has allowed the U.S. to mediate the recent Southern African peace settlement, which ties the withdrawal of Cuban troops in Angola with Namibian independence from South Africa...
Some Board members are beginning to push for the Overseers to take on a more active role in University governance. Although the Board of Overseers officially must approve the Corporation's policies for them to be enacted, it has usually been reluctant to take an independent stand...
Another elite corps also felt the pressure of women's activism. The nine all-male final clubs once again were the object of debate in the dining halls and in the Undergraduate Council. This time around the council took a stand, calling on the clubs to admit women. Meanwhile, the gender discrimination suit against the Fly Club filed more than a year ago with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination dragged...
Most schools are taking a tough stand against bigotry. Last October, after the independent conservative paper Dartmouth Review compared college president James Freedman, who is Jewish, to Hitler, the trustees denounced the editors for "ignorance and moral blindness." Months earlier, the university had taken sterner action, suspending three Review staffers for harassing a black professor of music. However, reinstatement of the students was ordered this month by a superior-court judge, and they are now suing the university for breach of contract, arguing that it did not live up to its bylaws, which guarantee free expression...
...quite. Opponents of boosting the 9.1 cents-per-gal. federal tax are gearing up for a fierce lobbying brawl. On one side stand the influential but unorganized advocates of the gas-tax increase, who range from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They argue that a gas-tax boost -- the proposals span from about 7 cents per gal. to 50 cents -- would be simple to administer and would bring a gusher of new revenues. As fringe benefits, the tax would help the environment and the U.S. trade position...