Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coordinating Committee of the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), we would like to express our differences with Ms. Klegar and Mr. Keane on one other point. They assert that there is no contradiction-in giving to both funds. We disagree. In believing that contributions to the Harvard College Fund indicate tacit support of the University's current South Africa investment policy, we call upon seniors to examine the merits of the issues involved and to consider denating to Harvard only through the Endowment for Divestiture. We sincerely hope that this money will go towards undergraduate education. The money...
...formal arms-control bargaining at a time and place to be selected within a month. Moreover, the U.S. and Soviet positions entering those new negotiations are very far apart; there is no assurance that they can be harmonized. Nonetheless, the similar statements by Gromyko and Reagan pointed to a tacit understanding that the nuclear superpowers should at least put aside polemics while searching for a compromise...
...self-doubt, the party now faces a threat on an unexpected front: Mitterrand's conduct of foreign affairs. A strong supporter of NATO, an advocate of European cooperation and a defender of France's traditional role in Africa and the Third World, Mitterrand had won at least tacit support for his policies even among his detractors. No longer...
...least part of the answer must lie in the resentment Iranians feel toward this country for its vigorous support of the Shah--the same resentment that led to the seizure of 50 American hostages by a group of militant Iranian students in 1980, with the tacit support of Ayatollah Khomeni's new government...
...similar phenomena may have begun where Chicano students are concerned. For the previous five years Harvard had had very stable Chicano acceptance and matriculation rates. (Sandoval labeled this phenomena a "tacit quota system" to limit the number of Mexican-American students a figure respectable to other prestigious East Coast schools.) Last year saw a record number, more than half of thoseadmitted, however, choose to go elsewhere...