Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establish rules concerning the requirements of good order within their jurisdiction. Further, these bodies should be given the authority to establish regulations regarding visitation by women to college rooms." Without necessarily associating ourselves with all of the particulars of this proposal, we find ourselves sympathetic with its general thrust. We believe there is a valid rationale for the view that the area of decision-making in the University which students have the most right to control is the area involving their own living conditions. We also tend to the view that in this area as much discretion as possible should...
Harvard played steadily throughout the game, scoring once in each of the four periods. Malin especially liked the way his fullback combination of Andy Abbot. Ron McClain, and Bobby Woods contained the Amherst offensive thrust...
...crucial question is whether the lag in productivity is only temporary. There are several indications that the change may endure. The main thrust of the U.S. economy has shifted from producing goods to providing services. Last year work in Government and services together consumed 50% more man-hours of labor than the production of goods. Thanks to improving technology, productivity is still gaining in manufacturing; it has climbed at a 3½% annual rate so far in 1969. Outside of manufacturing, where the best way to raise efficiency is to induce people to perform better, productivity has fallen...
...relations between the university and the government which obtain at a variety of levels.) It is a one-sided conception of polities indeed that allows as political. say, only opponents of the Vietnam war, and reduces the silent and acquiescent to the status of a-political onlookers. One is thrust into a political role in taking part in the world: this has been repeated from Aristotle through twentieth-century existentialists. The question is thus not "am I or should I be political?" but " realizing that I am political by virtue of my very existence, what sort of politics must...
Roberts called the convocation idea "an elaborate charade," which would have the same "substantive political impact" as a regular vote. He added that the avoidance of a regular Faculty vote would, at the same time, "blunt the motion's moral thrust" and act as "a slap at student protest...