Word: suggestion
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...suggest to any Overseer that divestment is not a proper subject for discussion by the Overseers or that it should not be considered by them at their meeting last year. It is, in my view, an appropriate subject for discussion and advice to the Corporation. I did express the opinion that simply voting on the issue, as some people were advocating, was not the best way for the Overseers to advise the Corporation or to resolve possible differences between the Governing Boards on the issue of divestment...
...Dutch greeting is regarded as the first formal recognition of American nationhood by a foreign official. But to suggest that a maritime salutation could set in motion events that altered the world would seem to require a well-stocked imagination and a keen dramatic instinct. Readers of The Guns of August (1962), The Proud Tower (1966) and A Distant Mirror (1978) have good reason to know that Barbara Tuchman possesses both in abundance. Yet she has never reduced history to simple causes and effects. Her books resemble jigsaw puzzles: start anywhere with any fragment and one can eventually assemble...
...suggest that the Offical Register of Harvard University and The Harvard Crimson replace the outmoded title of "Chairman" with the more appropriate gender-neutral "Chairperson" in the Courses of Instruction and the masthead of the newspaper. Peter H. Vrooman...
...Guns don't kill; people do." The simple logic of that refrain from the National Rifle Association would suggest that the nation's 2.8 million-member gun lobby would support any move to keep the wrong people from acquiring deadly weapons. Not so. The N.R.A. invariably goes to war against any attempt to limit the avalanche of handguns that are used to kill 21,000 Americans annually. Last week the gun lobby triumphed in its latest campaign, a $4 million effort against a sensible congressional proposal to strengthen existing federal restrictions on the sale of handguns. The legislation would have...
There are other apparent influences, notably Woody Allen's Bananas and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel The Autumn of the Patriarch. But actually, Parador is not nearly as sophisticated as all this borrowing would suggest. It is simply a Hollywood comedy, albeit a rather clever and funny one. And that is sufficient...