Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Visiting Committee." By postponing the upcoming April meeting, the Overseers essentially abolished the present committee as the members' terms expire before meetings resume next year. One cannot help wondering, as one Harvard Corporation member suggested, how large a role embarrassment and irritation played in the board's decision to suspend the meetings...
...fundamental rights recognized by the United Nations, including protection from personal violence, the right to a fair trial, due process of law and the freedoms of expression, religion, assembly, travel and association. Among the most frequent worldwide violations: lengthy imprisonment without trial, blanket security laws that allow governments to suspend civil liberties and curbs on free expression (the press in 52 of the countries works under the threat of government restriction). Incidents of torture often involving terrorists and dissidents were reported in 32 of the states...
Budget Baiter. Although the memo's charges are untrue, Warnke has offered some questionable proposals in his time. In the spring 1975 issue of Foreign Policy, for instance, he urged that the U.S. temporarily suspend further development of some of its advanced weapons in order to set an example the Soviets could emulate. His assumption that "the chances are good that highly advertised restraint on our part will be reciprocated" by the Russians can be challenged, since they failed to respond in kind to the U.S. reduction in real military spending from...
...65th cover story for TIME, another record for the week. For Associate Editor Peter Stoler, who wrote the accompanying box on how the Big Freeze fits into the long-term weather outlook, the worst aspect of the cold was not the temperature but the ice -which caused him to suspend his usual five-mile morning jog until the roads are safer. Some of his less active colleagues lost no time in offering personal tips on how to warm yourself up. In the Nation section, Robert Goldstein recommended the "Canadian Two-Step," a lively, though inexplicable, jig that he learned while...
University officials suspend without pay every worker in Lowell House dining hall, charging them with participating in an unauthorized walkout. The June 1 incident began when a fire raged through the dining hall's kitchen, and the workers abandoned the serving line...