Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement released after the board's ruling, MIT officials said they supported the decision and were "deeply disappointed" that SAE students had chosen not to appear at their Oct. 26 hearing before the board...
...Students must accept responsibility for their actions and must understand that they will be held accountable--by MIT and by the civil authorities," the statement read...
...tried to contact company officials at UNICCO and SSI, Harvard's current outsourcers, with mixed success. SSI referred me to their president, Ed Silvey, who repeatedly did not return my calls. Walter W. Crow, the in-house counsel for UNICCO, faxed me a statement that "UNICCO pays its full time employees throughout Cambridge a wage not less than $9.20 an hour" and that they also receive pension and health insurance. "Part time employees receive not less than $8.25," he wrote, and "all employees receive paid vacations, jury duty pay, bereavement pay, personal days, and holidays." Adding these up, Crow contended...
However, I take issue with her statement that "it's not all that important in the scheme of things." I could approach this as a philosophical argument (after all, what really is important in the scheme of things?), but I'll leave that to the philosophy concentrators out there. No, the importance of baseball lies in its unique power...
...This was a collective, symbolic statement that there is no reasonable justification for bigotry," he said...