Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broader scale, the federal government should cease all involvement in the Mexican government's herbicide war on the nation's marijuana fields. The U.S. State Department has promised to produce an environmental impact statement detailing the effects of Mexico's "drug-eradication" program on the United States; such token action remains an insufficient response to a growing problem affecting millions of marijuana users in this country. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) filed a lawsuit last March 13 seeking an injunction to halt the herbicide spraying program pending the publication of the environmental impact statement...
...Harvard Corporation's statement of policy concerning Harvard's involvement in South Africa has left us, as well as many other students with whom we have spoken, extremely skeptical of the Corporation's commitment to take meaningful action against apartheid. In terms of Harvard's role in corporations with operations in South Africa, we feel that Harvard's proposal to examine each case according to the extremely vague guidelines suggested in the report may, in fact, amount to a policy of inaction...
...past hundred years. It is not an innovative or deliberately spectacular structure, as the still debated Centre Beaubourg in Paris turned out to be. Down to the last miter in its warm Tennessee marble cladding, the East Building is intended to be an authoritative, if not exactly authoritarian, statement: balanced, lucid, reflecting the inherently conservative nature of the National Gallery's self-image. The East Building and its concourse (which together cover 604,000 sq. ft.) will be somewhat larger than the older building (522,500 sq. ft.). The new structure may be the most expensive public building...
...seemed in no mood to pussyfoot last week. Their own agenda for Puebla focused on "glaring social inequities" and "unjust division of land," and cited the enormous gap between rich and poor as "a social scandal in a continent thought to be Christian." At Puebla, the bishops' concluding statement urged, there must be "prophetic criticism of the socioeconomic and political systems reigning in Latin America." Medellin, obviously, will not be set aside, even on orders from Rome, without a struggle...
...realize I should be grateful to the members of the Corporation for all the soul-searching and agonizing moral battles they so kindly tell us they have undergone, but some parts of their statement strain the limits of my credulousness. For example, they tell us that the best way to influence conditions in South Africa is not to "cut and run," but to redirect the policies of corporations. The logical extension of such an argument is that Harvard should buy even more South African stock so that more corporations come under the influence of men with such high moral...