Word: tides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minority Students Alliance (MSA) set off the new tide of activism last spring by producing the original report on minority faculty recruitment. After meeting with MSA members, Spence commissioned the faculty group and charged it with investigating the MSA's claims that minorities are not as actively sought out by Harvard as they should...
There followed a McDonald's, the aptly named New Era Pharmacy and New Beginning Shopping Center. Then a police substation, a community college satellite and a tide of renovations by local merchants. Pitts meanwhile cleared the way for building the $5.7 million Edison Towers, new housing in the heart of the riot area, and is now at work on another housing initiative, Edison Gardens. The speed of the turnaround, says LISC's Sandra Rosenblith, was dazzling. "This is the way community development is supposed to work," she says, "but I've never seen it happen so clearly, or so fast...
Violence is not new to Sri Lanka, torn by civil conflict since 1983. In the past 16 months some 4,000 civilians and combatants have died in the violence. Over the past few weeks, however, the tide of blood has risen. The toll in the south has mounted to at least a dozen lives daily. With the presidential vote set for next week, the country and its 16 million people are on the verge of anarchy, the ethnic and factional strife having unleashed a savagery evocative of El Salvador in the early 1980s. Many Sri Lankans stake the last hope...
...implemented because it never has before. Change means just that, and it cannot occur if we are too stubborn and too distrustful to welcome it. As difficult as it may be, we must extricate ourselves from our anti-Soviet education and reshape our views to match the changing tide. Only then can the wave of trust and cooperation reach...
...order also called on Soviet General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev to "take quick and appropriate steps to stop the tide of violence against the Armenians," and asked that a copy of the order be transmitted to Gorbachev...