Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Horner, Radcliffe pays Harvard 100 per cent of its tuition income in return for the education Harvard gives undergraduate women. "Harvard is in effect our service bureau," says Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe. Effectively without any tuition income, Radcliffe relies on endowment income and government grants to support its activities...
...raise their own income taxes and defeat a referendum to sell Muny Light; he finally won the approval of a hostile city council of his own plan to repay the banks. But in the primary October 2, Kucinich ran 11,228 votes behind Voinovich. Kucinich has heavy union support, but Voinovich is outspending him more than two to one. The deciding factor in the run-off may turn out to be the death of Voinovich's nine-year-old daughter, who was hit by a van October 8. The tragedy caused the Lieutenant Governor to spend less time campaigning...
...over two years students and faculty members have made this direct economic support for the system of apartheid in South Africa the subject of continuing protest, linking it at times to Harvard's own system of racism by its repression of the Afro-American studies department. In the past, President Bok and the Corporation have reluctantly made face-saving gestures, such as providing Nieman Foundation fellowships to the South African jornalists Percy Qoboza and Donald Woods, whenever the embarrassment of their policies have been too great. Now, in another move to undercut the opposition to Harvard's lucrative hare...
...pressures of free trade displace only a relatively small segment of the domestic labor force, these unemployed are highly visible, and in the context of high unemployment, a democratic government is hard pressed to adopt short-term palliatives. Producers like protectionism because it is a form of government support which interferes least in their affairs. Workers in declining industries like it because it saves their jobs. The government likes it because it is a form of assistance that requires little expenditure. But the only groups protectionism does hurt are consumers and export industries...
...afraid most Americans will find it difficult not to support the democratically elected regime in Zimbabwe...