Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memo then makes the typical intimidating statement of what will happen when the policy fails: "There are colleges and universities that have banned alcohol altogether from their campuses...
...statement is hollow; Harvard would never stoop that low. After all, a universal alcohol ban would be unenforceable. Just look at all the other alternatives in Cambridge for sudsing up, and the fact that alcohol, once it is in the system, cannot be banned...
...move clearly timed to capture a wide audience, a Soviet broadcaster interrupted a prime-time television showing of the 1958 film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic, And Quiet Flows the Don, to read an announcement from Gorbachev. There are "considerable chances," said the General Secretary's statement, that the next round of peace talks on Afghanistan "will become the final...
When is a failing grade not a failing grade? Maybe when the Department of Education is handing out the marks. In another statement last week, Secretary Bennett announced that six Southern and Border States had yet to comply fully with a 17-year-old court order to desegregate public colleges. However, instead of expressing concern, Bennett praised the states for having made "substantial progress." Moreover, the Secretary gave passing grades to four other states, even though they have not fully met goals or timetables set by his department...
...dissolve the government -- one of his few real powers -- unless it rejected the document. The Socialists refused the demand, but Vice Chancellor Alois Mock, leader of the People's Party, charged that the panel had overstepped its mandate by passing moral judgments. The Cabinet finally issued a bland statement noting that Panel Chairman Hans-Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, acknowledged that his group had found "no personal guilty behavior nor participation in war crimes" on Waldheim's part...