Word: themes
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...outgrowth of a Massachusetts Bay Colony act of September, 1642 that empowered a group of overseers, financed by the bequest of a tuburcular John Harvard, to ensure the "piety, morality and learning" of the students of the College. The act presaged what was to be a significant theme for the first two centuries of the University's history: the strong hold that the state legislature was to carry over Harvard's governing boards, particularly the overseers...
This emphasis on transmitting values is a recurrent theme in the debates about ethics--in education, in foreign policy. "The problem is developing a foreign policy which reflects basic American values, and that is something we do not have right now," says Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, one of the Democratic candidates for president...
Because the movement to organize Harvard's workers is not focused on one particular issue or grievance, union leaders are stressing their autonomy as a major theme, union labor experts and union leaders say. "The campaign is all about the issue of personal dignity, not one particular issue," Kiley says...
...wonder. At stake in the Bakker-Falwell struggle was an empire consisting of a daily TV show carried on 161 stations; the largest all-day religious cable service, transmitted to 13 million homes; and the gaudy 2,300- acre Heritage USA theme park at Fort Mill, S.C., a kind of Christian Disneyland that last year had more than 6 million visitors. PTL claimed 1986 proceeds of $129 million...
Warming to his theme, Botha advised journalists working in South Africa to "guard against instigating and promoting activities of this kind under the guise of the freedom of the press." As if to underscore the point, the Department of Home Affairs last week refused to reverse its decision not to renew the work permits of two British television correspondents. At the same time, Botha pledged to be "more directly involved" in negotiations with black leaders and to create a National Council as a forum for such talks. But even moderate blacks such as KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi have refused...