Word: standings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Babbitt's "stand-up campaign" dramatized the fact that while none of us want reduced services or higher taxes, neither do we want high deficits bequeathed to our children. Our desire for a gain-no pain cure has left us looking like a whiny child, unwilling to swallow the bitter, restorative fiscal medicine. We have entrusted the economic health of the nation to Dr. Feelgood and have demonstrated a willingness to forgive deception and punish forthrightness...
...great red hills stand desolate, and the earth has torn away like flesh. The lightning flashes over them, the clouds pour down upon them, the dead streams come to life, full of the red blood of the earth. Down in the valleys women scratch the soil that is left, and the maize hardly reaches the height of a man. They are valleys of old men and old women, of mothers and children. The men are away, the young men and the girls are away. The soil will not keep them anymore...
Those who support the Overseers' voting on divestment hold that the Board has the responsibility to take as stand on an issue which has been discussed on this campus for more than a decade. They also argue that the position of many board members is not known, and any discussion of the sentiment of the Board without a record of the positions of the whole will be inconclusive at best...
Specifically, Vellucci said Howe changes her stand on abortion to suit the audiences she is addressing. Citing Howe's June 3, 1987 vote for a bill restricting abortions for minors, he said Howe's views on the question remain pro-life and said they have been so for 20 years...
Howe said the attempt to portray Vellucci as a more "progressive" candidate would not work. "I have substantive issues to stand on," she said. She also criticized Vellucci's State House attendance record...