Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superpower confrontation took place on the high seas last week. Ironically, it showed that U.S.-Soviet relations are not quite as strained as some of the hand-wringing post-mortems over the Russian rejection of new U.S. SALT proposals might suggest. American Coast Guardsmen boarded and seized two Russian fishing vessels-an encounter that gave both countries plenty of opportunity for belligerent muscle flexing. Neither jumped at the opportunity...
...nine-member commission, headed by retired Chicago Banker Gaylord Freeman, estimates that dropping Saturday deliveries would save the Postal Service $412 million a year. The commission will also recommend further mechanization of mail handling to save $134 million annually, and suggest other improvements in management and productivity that would save $78 mil lion. Total savings: $624 million annually. Also proposed is the gradual elimination of subsidized postal rates for nonprofit organizations...
Although many said they had never followed the progress of the Corporation's committee on shareholding decisions, protesters who had kept tabs on ACSR suggest the body is simply an effort at appeasement. One student reminded this reporter that several Houses had even boycotted the elections of a student representative to ACSR in the first years of the committee's existence. "The rationale for the University's policies have absolutely no connection with what a little committee feels is ethical," Mary Basset '74 said...
...former campus dissidents' attitudes are not completely at odds with the views of some ACSR members, both past and present. Some members suggest that a bias exists in ACSR membership because of the strong predominance of individuals with business, corporate law, and economics backgrounds, among the group's alumni and faculty members. As Sabine Rodriguez '75, a second-year student at the Law School and a member of ACSR during its first three years says the University appears to believe that an alumnus who works in the arts in Boston is not as capable of judging the social value...
...students cite reasons for the decline in activism other than the standard sociological "tight job market--pre-professional preoccupation--gotta get good grades" synthesis. Some of them reject the absence of an overwhelming issue like Vietnam. The issues are still there, only the interest is not, they suggest...