Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush was frustrated. Deeply stung by domestic and allied criticism that he was drifting into a policy of pallid reaction to Kremlin moves, disappointed in the much touted "review" of Soviet policy that advised only a timid "status quo plus," Bush finally found the urge for action. More important, Baker returned from Moscow convinced that the Soviets were "really serious" about transforming the conventional balance. Gorbachev had laid out a forthcoming Soviet offer that looked as if it would produce both a propaganda coup and an opening for negotiations. Says a senior White House official: "Baker had a feeling that...
...upbeat, citing an ambitious $437 million plan for developing the East St. Louis riverfront that would include a cargo port, recycling center and high- rise apartments overlooking the river and downtown St. Louis. But no work has been done on the project for three years, and the tax-exempt status of the bonds sold to finance it is under review by the Internal Revenue Service. "I'm still optimistic," Officer insists. "We'll haul ourselves up by our bootstraps." But attorney Rex Carr, a lifelong resident of the city, has a dimmer view. "East St. Louis today doesn't even...
...were born in the heat of student protest, when youths spouted visions of changing the world and opening society; now youth are more likely to accept the status quo. But, in a way every student now takes for granted what used to be the highest of goals--women's rights, civil rights and our nation at peace. Even the most traditional of students in the Class of 1989 have made friends with students of different ethnicities, races, religions and sexual preferences...
...phone, the alumni shared career crises--some denied partner status, others yearning to switch jobs, many balancing child-rearing with work. They shared family concerns--making payments on their first suburban home, divorcing, paying hospital bills. These are circumstances that we'll encounter as well. But the difference between a Harvard education for this class and the alumni before us is not to be found in mundane events...
Wilson: Well, faculty meetings areplaces where faculty get up and advocate things,not presidents. When Matina Horner stands up at afaculty meeting she's standing up as a facultymember, not as a president. I would be veryinterested in learning more about the women'sstudies program and raising the status of women'sstudies...