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When Leonard leaves for Fisk, Harvard will lose its staunchest supporter of affirmative action--a man who has spent his years here working with the goal of increasing the number of women and minorities at all levels of the University. His successor will have a difficult time picking up; in the past year, Bok has taken a step away from active support of Leonard, refusing to take a stand against Dean Rosovsky in certain actions when Leonard called for it. But Leonard's outspoken attitude has enabled him to resist even passive attacks of this sort...
With Leonard's departure, Harvard will lose its staunchest and most outspoken supporter of affirmative action. In his years at the University, Leonard has unhesitatingly scored both faculty and administrators for their alleged footdragging in implementing government guidelines...
Moreover, there is a fragile, but growing consensus among both consuming and producing nations that a strengthening of the system of agreements on price ranges for commodities is necessary to maintain stability. The U.S., for example, once the staunchest supporter of a free market for commodities, recently decided for the first time to participate in the latest five-year international tin-pricing agreement. The U.S. also is leaning toward negotiating accords on several other raw materials. Despite these hopeful signs, however, the current rise in commodity prices is an unnerving reminder that the industrial world's recovery could conceivably...
...brothers but are thought to be cousins of King George III (their grandmother, the Baroness Kielmansegge, was once a favorite mistress of George I). Despite this royal connection, the two brothers, whom the Crown has now charged with suppressing all rebellion in the Colonies, were until lately among the staunchest advocates of a reconciliation...
Even Ashbery's staunchest defenders admit that his work is difficult. A noted art critic as well as poet, Ashbery, 50, manipulates words as if they were daubs of paint, interesting not for their meaning but for their coloration...