Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Warren describes how McKinsey conducted its research by sending out surveys to students and alumni, holding meetings, conducting one-on-one interviews and inviting students, faculty and administrators to attend small gatherings where members of the firm took notes about life...
...other universities took similar actions," Fallows says. "Almost all tried to wait the students out and defuse the situation. While the logic of sending in the police was in one sense unassailable, it was a tragedy for almost everyone involved. It raised an already inflamed situation an order of magnitude in intensity...
...black students from the Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee, two activist groups, took over Mass. Hall and demanded that the University divest from the Gulf Oil Corporation in protest of the company's practices in Angola. John, who was one of the protestors inside the building, says the takeover resulted from students' unsuccessful meetings with stockholders to discuss concerns...
When the federal government's Department of Health, Education and Welfare set regulations for the fair hiring of women and minorities, it took Harvard three years and four separate attempts before a plan was finally approved in fall...
...great that he lowered it but that took along time to show itself," Piltch said...