Word: swayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next School Committee is composed of thefour incumbents who sought reelection--twoIndependents and two CCA-endorsed--as well as onenewcomer from each political camp. The mayor, asthe chair and seventh member of the committee,will likely sway the otherwise balanced group tothe left...
...virtually the only major democratic state that gives serious sway to the free-market or libertarian paradigm on speech issues. This is outmoded, I think. New Right intellectuals--and those they influence--utilize hate-speech as part of a cynical manipulation of the insecurities, anger, and confusion that are fundamental to postmodern life. Mansfield and his hate-speech are, I believe, very much the "business of the university," to quote Prof. Warren Goldfarb who differs with me on this. Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government
...will be even more difficult because Quebec is its own section. Ontario, Quebec's powerful and unified neighbor (98 of its 99 representatives are Liberals) will constantly be at loggerheads with the Quebecois on national and regional issues. Furthermore, those 98 votes give Ontario's caucus alone enough sway to tangle with the Bloc Quebecois and the Reform Party all by itself...
...publicity and support Hicks received appeared to do little to sway Harvard's resolve. Meanwhile, the former cook's own labor union refused to take his firing to arbitration, prompting Hicks to file a com-plaint against the group with the National Labor Relations Board. That complaint was also rejected over the summer, though Hicks says he has appealed the decision...
...Faculty cowered before making a decision, shuttling the report back and forth from Faculty Council and full Faculty meetings. The opinions of Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, who said he opposed the Faculty taking any stance on such a political issue as the gay ban, held sway...